Reading List - 2015.3.18

“Fronthaul Compression for Cloud Radio Access Networks”

A survey of the work in the area of fronthaul compression with emphasis on advanced signal processing solutions based on network information theoretic concepts.

- Multiterminal compression
  Uplink: The key technique is distributed compression or Wyner-Ziv coding[10].
  Downlink: multivariate compression [9 Ch.9].
- Structured coding
  compute-and-forward[11]

• Uplink:

- Point-to-Point Fronthaul Compression

- Distributed Fronthaul Compression
  First proposed in [17].
  sequential decompression [9, Ch. 10] [18] [19].
  Wyner-Ziv compression.
  channel decoding algorithms: message passing or trellis search[10].
  optimization problem of this scheme: block-coordinate optimization approach and leverages a key result in [20].

- Compute-and-forword [11]
- Multihop Fronthaul Topology [22]

• Downlink

- Point-to-Point Fronthaul Compression
- Multivariate Fronthaul Compression
- Compute-and-forward [24]
- "dirty paper" nonlinear precoding [25]
- Performance Evaluation
  cell-edge throughput versus the average per-UE spectral efficiency [8, Fig.5].