Paper by ECE alumnus and Professors won 2016 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications
The paper by Yuanming Shi, Alumnus of Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering (ECE), and Professor Jun Zhang and Professor Khaled Ben Letaeif, ECE, won the prestigious 2016 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications.
The paper is entitled “Group Sparse Beamforming for Green Cloud-RAN”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Volume 13, No. 5, pp. 2809-2823, May 2014.
The IEEE Guglielmo Marconi Best Paper Award is an annual award for an original paper in the field of Wireless Communications published in the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. The award will be presented in May 2016 at the IEEE International Conference on Communications in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Abstract
Cloud Radio Access Network (Cloud-RAN) is a revolutionary network architecture for next-generation wireless networks, i.e., 5G networks. By leveraging recent advances in cloud computing, it can harness advanced signal processing and resource allocation algorithms to increase data rates and improve energy efficiency in a cost-effective manner. This paper is the first work published in the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, a leading journal in wireless communications, that comprehensively investigated the novel network architecture of Cloud-RAN. It proposes a new design methodology to achieve green communications in Cloud-RAN, supported by efficient algorithms. The presented results provide new perspectives in designing dense wireless networks, and thus will be valuable for such applications as Internet of Things. Moreover, the proposed sparse optimization methodologies will be helpful to tackle other complicated design problems in wireless networks.
