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IEEE NETWORK
Volume 30, Issue 4, Pages 46-53Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/mnet.2016.7513863
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61361166005]
- National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) [2013CB336600]
- State Major Science and Technology Special Projects [2016ZX03001020-006]
- National Program for Support of Top-Notch Young Professionals
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An F-RAN is presented in this article as a promising paradigm for the fifth generation wireless communication system to provide high spectral and energy efficiency. The core idea is to take full advantage of local radio signal processing, cooperative radio resource management, and distributed storing capabilities in edge devices, which can decrease the heavy burden on fronthaul and avoid large-scale radio signal processing in the centralized baseband unit pool. This article comprehensively presents the system architecture and key techniques of F-RANs. In particular, key techniques and their corresponding solutions, including transmission mode selection and interference suppression, are discussed. Open issues in terms of edge caching, software-defined networking, and network function virtualization are also identified.
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