System cost minimization in cloud RAN with limited fronthaul capacity

• Main Authors: Tang, Jianhua, Tay, Wee Peng, Quek, Tony Q. S., Liang, Ben
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering; VM activation; C-RAN
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/102695; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/47837
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Cloud radio access network (C-RAN) is emerging as a potential alternative for the next generation RAN by merging RAN and cloud computing together. In this paper, we consider the baseband unit (BBU) pool of C-RAN as a collection of virtual machines (VMs). We allow each user equipment (UE) to associat...