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RUN-O-RAN: An O-RAN-Native Architecture Enabling Cooperative Uplink Localization
Viola Bernazzoli, Alberto Ceresoli, Ilario Filippini
Accurate positioning is increasingly required in indoor and dense urban environments; nonetheless, satellite-based systems are not always available, and standardized 5G localizatio…
5 Shades of Cooperation: Spectrum Sharing in the Upper-Mid Band
Alberto Ceresoli, Marco Mezzavilla, Ilario Filippini +1
Spectrum exclusively licensed to each mobile network operator (MNO) is scarce, and assigning it in fixed, frequency-orthogonal blocks leaves much of it idle under heterogeneous, ti…
Toward Mobile and Converged Backhaul: The Promise of Wireless Access and Backhaul
Chiara Rubaltelli, Marcello Morini, Eugenio Moro +2
Wireless Access and Backhaul (WAB) is emerging as a key enabler for flexible and cost-efficient 5G deployments, offering a modular architecture that decouples access and backhaul w…
AoA Services in 5G Networks: A Framework for Real-World Implementation and Systematic Testing
Alberto Ceresoli, Viola Bernazzoli, Roberto Pegurri +1
Accurate positioning is a key enabler for emerging 5G applications. While the standardized Location Management Function (LMF) operates centrally within the core network, its scalab…
Enabling Mobile Base Stations in 5G via Wireless Access Backhaul (WAB): A Multi-Band Experimental Study
Chiara Rubaltelli, Marcello Morini, Eugenio Moro +1
Highly dynamic and mobile applications, such as vehicular networks, require stable connectivity, which is often challenging to achieve. Network densification is a key approach to a…
Optimal Planning for Heterogeneous Smart Radio Environments
Reza Aghazadeh Ayoubi, Eugenio Moro, Marouan Mizmizi +3
Smart Radio Environment (SRE) is a central paradigms in 6G and beyond, where integrating SRE components into the network planning process enables optimized performance for high-fre…
Towards Smart Fronthauling Management: Experimental Insights from a 5G Testbed
Marcello Morini, Eugenio Moro, Ilario Filippini +3
The fronthaul connection is a key component of Centralized RAN (C-RAN) architectures, consistently required to handle high capacity demands. However, this critical feature is at ri…
Advanced Network Planning in 6G Smart Radio Environments
Reza Aghazadeh Ayoubi, Marouan Mizmizi, Eugenio Moro +2
The growing demand for high-speed, reliable wireless connectivity in 6G networks necessitates innovative approaches to overcome the limitations of traditional Radio Access Network…
Meeting Future Mobile Traffic Needs by Peak-Throughput Design of Next-Gen RAN
Paolo Fiore, Ilario Filippini, Danilo De Donno
Growing congestion in current mobile networks necessitates innovative solutions. This paper explores the potential of mmWave 5G networks in urban settings, focusing on Integrated A…
Shaping Radio Access to Match Variable Wireless Fronthaul Quality in Next-Generation Networks
Marcello Morini, Eugenio Moro, Ilario Filippini +2
The emergence of Centralized-RAN (C-RAN) has revolutionized mobile network infrastructure, offering streamlined cell-site engineering and enhanced network management capabilities.…
Exploring Upper-6GHz and mmWave in Real-World 5G Networks: A Direct on-Field Comparison
Marcello Morini, Eugenio Moro, Ilario Filippini +2
The spectrum crunch challenge poses a vital threat to the progress of cellular networks and recently prompted the inclusion of millimeter wave (mmWave) and Upper 6GHz (U6G) in the…
Shaping Next-Generation RAN Topologies to Meet Future Traffic Demands: A Peak Throughput Study
Paolo Fiore, Ilario Filippini, Danilo De Donno
Millimeter-Wave (mm-Wave) Radio Access Networks (RANs) are a promising solution to tackle the overcrowding of the sub-6 GHz spectrum, offering wider and underutilized bands. Howeve…
Mobility-Aware Resource Allocation for mmWave IAB Networks: A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach
Bibo Zhang, Ilario Filippini
MmWaves have been envisioned as a promising direction to provide Gbps wireless access. However, they are susceptible to high path losses and blockages, which directional antennas c…
Planning Mm-Wave Access Networks With Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Eugenio Moro, Ilario Filippini, Antonio Capone +1
With the capability to support gigabit data rates, millimetre-wave (mm-Wave) communication is unanimously considered a key technology of future cellular networks. However, the hars…
Boosting 5G mm-Wave IAB Reliability with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Paolo Fiore, Eugenio Moro, Ilario Filippini +2
The introduction of the mm-Wave spectrum into 5G NR promises to bring about unprecedented data throughput to future mobile wireless networks but comes with several challenges. Netw…
Joint Management of Compute and Radio Resources in Mobile Edge Computing: a Market Equilibrium Approach
Eugenio Moro, Ilario Filippini
Edge computing has been recently introduced as a way to bring computational capabilities closer to end users of modern network-based services, in order to support existent and futu…
Adaptive Robust Traffic Engineering in Software Defined Networks
Davide Sanvito, Ilario Filippini, Antonio Capone +2
One of the key advantages of Software-Defined Networks (SDN) is the opportunity to integrate traffic engineering modules able to optimize network configuration according to traffic…
A Multi-traffic Inter-cell Interference Coordination Scheme in Dense Cellular Networks
Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Ilario Filippini, Vincenzo Mancuso +2
This paper proposes a novel semi-distributed and practical ICIC scheme based on the Almost Blank SubFrame (ABSF) approach specified by 3GPP. We define two mathematical programming…
Fast Cell Discovery in mm-wave 5G Networks with Context Information
Ilario Filippini, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Francesco Devoti +1
The exploitation of mm-wave bands is one of the key-enabler for 5G mobile radio networks. However, the introduction of mm-wave technologies in cellular networks is not straightforw…
Context Information for Fast Cell Discovery in mm-wave 5G Networks
Antonio Capone, Ilario Filippini, Vincenzo Sciancalepore
The exploitation of the mm-wave bands is one of the most promising solutions for 5G mobile radio networks. However, the use of mm-wave technologies in cellular networks is not stra…