BeGREEN: Beyond 5G Energy Efficient Networking by Hardware Acceleration and AI-Driven Management of Network Functions

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This paper presents a technical overview of BeGREEN project and…

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Mir Ghoraishi (Gigasys Solutions), Miguel Catalan-Cid (i2CAT), Vladica Sark (IHP),…

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EuCNC 2023

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2023-06-07

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Assessment of Energy Savings in Relay-Assisted 5G and Beyond Radio Access Networks

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Reducing the overall energy consumption in mobile networks is currently…

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J. Pérez-Romero, O. Ruiz, O. Sallent

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IEEE

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July 2024

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O-RAN: Analysis of Latency-Critical Interfaces and Overview of Time Sensitive Networking Solutions

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Another quality publication by the team on 'Analysis of Latency-Critical…

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E. Municio, G. Garcia-Aviles, A. Garcia-Saavedra; X. Costa-Pérez

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IEEE Communications Standards Magazine

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September 2023

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Mean-Field Multi-Agent Contextual Bandit for Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation in vRANs

In this paper, we gather data from our experimental platform and compare the performance and energy consumption of a HA (NVIDIA GPU V100) vs. a CPU (Intel Xeon Gold 6240R, 16 cores) for energy-friendly software processing.

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Radio Access Network (RAN) virtualization, key for new-generation mobile networks,…

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Jose A. Ayala-Romero, Leonardo Lo Schiavo, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Xavier Costa-Perez

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IEEE

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12 August 2024

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EdgeBOL: A Bayesian Learning Approach for the Joint Orchestration of vRANs and Mobile Edge AI

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This article proposed a Bayesian learning framework for jointly configuring…

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Jose A. Ayala-Romero, et al. (NEC)

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IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

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December 2023

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Optimizing antenna beamforming with quantum computing

We show how the maximization problem can be rigorously solved by reformulating it as a sequence of quadratic (but non-convex) minimization problems.

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We consider beamforming with largescale antenna arrays in which the…

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Keith Briggs

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EuCAP 2023

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March 2023

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AI-ready energy modelling for next generation RAN

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Kishan Sthankiya, Keith Briggs, Mona Jaber, Richard Clegg

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IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), April 21-23,…

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23rd April 2024

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YinYangRAN: Resource Multiplexing in GPU-Accelerated Virtualized RANs

RAN virtualization is revolutionizing the telco in- dustry, enabling 5G Distributed Units to run using general- purpose platforms equipped with Hardware Accelerators (HAs).

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RAN virtualization is revolutionizing the telco in- dustry, enabling 5G…

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Leonardo Lo Schiavo, Jose A. Ayala-Romero, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Marco Fiore,…

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IEEE

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May 2024

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Deep Learning-based Algorithm for Optimizing Relay User Equipment Activation in 5G Cellular Networks

This article addresses the problem of optimally using the relay capabilities of user equipment (UE) to augment the radio access network (RAN) in 5G deployments and beyond.

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This article addresses the problem of optimally using the relay…

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Juan Jesús Hernández-Carlón, Jordi Pérez-Romero, Oriol Sallent, Irene Vilà and…

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IEEE

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27 October 2023

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BeGREEN Intelligent Plane for AI-driven Energy Efficient O-RAN management

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Cellular networks are undergoing a revolutionary transform with the advent…

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Miguel Catalan-Cid i2CAT Foundation, Spain, Jorge Pueyo, Juan Sanchez-Gonzalez, Jesus…

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2024 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G…

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19 July 2024

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On the Design of a Network Digital Twin for the Radio Access Network in 5G and Beyond

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A Network Digital Twin (NDT) is a high-fidelity digital mirror…

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Irene Vilà, Oriol Sallent, Jordi Pérez-Romero

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Sensors

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2023

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A Tutorial on the Characterisation and Modelling of Low Layer Functional Splits for Flexible Radio Access Networks in 5G and Beyond

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The centralization of baseband (BB) functions in a radio access…

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J. Pérez-Romero, O. Sallent, A. Gelonch, X. Gelabert, B. Klaiqi,…

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IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials

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December 2023

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Dimensionality Reduction for Optimization of Radio Base Station Transmission Based on Energy Efficiency

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Large amounts of data are available to determine the current…

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Joss Armstrong (LMI), Enda Fallon,

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2023 IEEE 64th International Scientific Conference on Information Technology and…

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October 5, 2023

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Space and time user distribution measurements dataset in a university campus

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Radio Resource Management (RRM) strategies are essential components in mobile…

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Olga Ruiz, Juan Sánchez-González, Jordi Pérez-Romero, Oriol Sallent, Irene Vilà

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March 2024

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Open Experimental Measurements of Sub-6GHz Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

In this paper, we present two datasets that we make publicly available for research.

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In this paper, we present two datasets that we make…

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Marco Rossanese, Placido Mursia, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Arash Asadi,…

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2nd Apr 2024

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Enabling Beyond-Visual-Line-of-Sight Drones Operation over Open RAN 5G Networks with Slicing

While current 5G technologies promise to meet the performance requirements in terms of throughput and latency, there is a lack of studies regarding how to achieve full reliability in practice.

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Among the foretold claims of the transition from 5G to…

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Pau Baguer, Esteban Municio, Gines Garcia-Aviles, Xavier Costa-Perez

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IEEE

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1st July 2024

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Risk-Aware Continuous Control with Neural Contextual Bandits

In this paper, we propose a risk-aware decision-making framework for contextual bandit problems, accommodating constraints and continuous action spaces.

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Recent advances in learning techniques have garnered attention for their…

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Jose A. Ayala-Romero, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, and Xavier Costa-Perez

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15th December 2023

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Fair Resource Allocation in Virtualized O-RAN Platforms

This paper presents first a series of experiments which assess the O-Cloud's energy costs and their dependency on the servers' hardware, capacity and data traffic properties which, typically, change over time.

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O-RAN systems and their deployment in virtualized general-purpose computing platforms…

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Fatih Aslan, George Iosifidis, Jose A. Ayala-Romero, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Xavier…

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Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing…

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21st February 2024

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Pre-Emptive Conflict Detection Architecture for O-RAN Service Management and Orchestration

This paper proposes an extension to the O-RAN SMO architecture to incorporate a component that can predict when configuration changes are likely to degrade network performance.

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The evolution of telecommunications networks from closed to open architectures…

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Joss Armstrong, Enda Fallon, Sheila Fallon

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IEEE

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13th August 2024

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MemorAI: Energy-Efficient Last-Level Cache Memory Optimization for Virtualized RANs.

This paper investigates cache memory allocation mechanisms’ effectiveness in reducing total energy consumption.

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The virtualization of Radio Access Networks (vRAN) is well on…

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Ethan Sanchez, J. Xavier Salvat, Jose A. Ayala-Romero, Andres Garcia-Saavedra,…

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IEEE

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15 August 2024

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Attacking O-RAN Interfaces: Threat Modeling, Analysis and Practical Experimentation

Acknowledging the new security challenges arising from the expanded threat surface, O-RAN WG11 provides procedures to identify threats and assess and mitigate risks.

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A new generation of open and disaggregated Radio Access Networks…

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Pau Baguer, Girma M Yilma, Esteban Municio, Gines Garcia-Aviles, Andres…

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IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society

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22nd July 2024

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Open Radio Access Networks (O-RAN) Experimentation Platform: Design and Datasets

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The Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) Alliance is driving the…

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J. Xavier Salvat, et al.,

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IEEE Communications Magazine, (Volume:61, Issue: 9)

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September 2023

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Understanding the Performance and Power Saving Tradeoffs of Server Sleep States

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This paper presents a technical overview of BeGREEN project and…

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A. Griffiths, A. Morsman and P. Veitch (BT)

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IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking 2023 (CloudNet’23)

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November 2023

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Exploiting Cell Similarities in a Radio Access Network to Enhance Explainability for Autonomic Network Management Systems

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Modern telecommunications networks are highly complex and require constant real-time…

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J. Armstrong (LMI) and S. Fallon and E. Fallon (TUS)

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12th International Conference on Control, Automation and Information Sciences (ICCAIS…

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November 2023

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AIRIC: Orchestration of virtualized radio access networks with noisy neighbours

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Radio Access Networks virtualization (vRAN) is on its way becoming…

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J. X. Salvat Lozano, A. Garcia-Saavedra, X. Li, and X.…

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IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

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February 2024

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