Title
Optimal Fronthaul Quantization for Cloud Radio Positioning
Abstract
Wireless positioning systems that are implemented by means of a Cloud Radio Access Networks (C-RANs) may provide cost-effective solutions, particularly for indoor localization. In a C-RAN, the baseband processing, including localization, is carried out at a centralized control unit (CU) based on quantized baseband signals received from the RUs over finite-capacity fronthaul links. In this paper, the problem of maximizing the localization accuracy over fronthaul quantization/compression is formulated by adopting the Cram´er-Rao bound (CRB) on the localization accuracy as the performance metric of interest and information-theoretic bounds on the compression rate. The analysis explicitly accounts for the uncertainty of parameters at the CU via a robust, or worst-case, optimization formulation. The proposed algorithm leverages the Charnes-Cooper transformation and Difference-of-Convex (DC) programming, and is validated via numerical results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/TVT.2015.2431491
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
Keywords
Field
DocType
cloud radio access networks (c-rans),cramer-rao bound (crb),localization,quantization
Baseband,Data compression ratio,Computer science,Performance metric,Electronic engineering,Robustness (computer science),Control unit,Quantization (signal processing),Radio access network,Cloud computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
PP
99
0018-9545
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.50
9
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Seongah Jeong1193.47
Osvaldo Simeone23574264.99
Alexander M. Haimovich361869.28
Joonhyuk Kang440764.13