End-to-End Rate Enhancement in C-RAN Using Multi-Pair Two-Way Computation

Cloud radio-access networks (C-RAN) have been proposed as an enabling technology for keeping up with the requirements of next-generation wireless networks. Most existing works on C-RAN consider the uplink or the downlink separately. However, designing the uplink and the downlink jointly may bring additional advantages, especially if message source-destination information is taken into account. In this paper, this idea is demonstrated by considering pairwise message exchange between users in a C-RAN. A multi-pair two-way transmission scheme is proposed which targets maximizing the end-to-end user data rates. The achievable rate of this scheme is derived, optimized, and evaluated numerically. Results reveal that significant end-to-end rate improvement can be achieved using the proposed scheme compared to existing schemes.

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