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
Date
2023
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
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
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
Date
March 2024
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
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
Date
1st July 2024
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
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
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
Date
13th August 2024
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
Date
15 August 2024