Tony Q. S. Quek is an Associate Professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, and a scientist at the Institute for Infocomm Research. He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a co-editor of the book Small Cell Networks (Cambridge, 2013). Mugen Peng is a Professor in the School of Information and Communication Engineering at the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and a recipient of the First Grade Award of Technological Invention from both the Ministry of Education of China and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China. Osvaldo Simeone is an Associate Professor affiliated with the Center for Wireless Communications and Signal Processing Research at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Wei Yu is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Information Theory and Wireless Communications at the University of Toronto. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

• Part I. Architecture of C-RAN: 1. Overview of C-RAN Chih-Lin I, Jinri Huang and Ran Duan; 2. Advanced C-RAN for heterogeneous network Sadayuki Abeta, Wuri A. Hapsari and Kazuaki Takeda; Part II. Physical Layer Design in C-RAN: 3. The trade-off of computational complexity and achievable rates in C-RAN Peter Rost, Matthew C. Valenti, Salvatore Talarico and Andreas Maeder; 4. Cooperative beamforming and resource optimization in C-RAN Wei Yu, Pratik Patil, Binbin Dai and Yuhan Zhou; 5. Training design and channel estimation in C-RANs Mugen Peng, Zhendong Mao, Yourrong Ban and Di Chen; 6. Massive MIMO in C-RANs Shi Jin, Jun Zhang, Kai-Kit Wong and Hongbo Zhu; 7. Large-scale convex optimization for C-RANs Yuanming Shi, Jun Zhang, Khaled B. Letaief, Bo Bai and Wei Chen; 8. Fronthaul compression in C-RANs Osvaldo Simeone, Seok-Hwan Park, Onur Sahin and Shlomo Shamai (Shitz); 9. Adaptive compression in C-RANs Thang X. Vu, Tony Q. S. Quek and Hieu D. Nguyen; Part III. Resource Allocation and Networking in C-RAN: 10. Resource management of heterogeneous C-RAN Shao-Yu Lien, Shao-Chou Hung, Chih-Hsiu Zeng, Hsiang Hsu, Qimei Cui and Kwang-Cheng Chen; 11. Coordinated scheduling in C-RANs Ahmed Douik, Hayssam Dahrouj, Oussama Dhifallah, Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri and Mohamed-Slim Alouini; 12. Delay-aware radio resource allocation optimization in heterogeneous C-RANs Mugen Peng, Jian Li, Hongyu Xiang and Yuling Yu; 13. C-RAN using wireless fronthaul: fast admission control and large system analysis Jian Zhao, Tony Q. S. Quek and Zhongding Lei; 14. Toward green deployment and operation for C-RAN Sheng Zhou, Jingchu Liu, Tao Zhao and Zhisheng Niu; 15. Optimal repeated spectrum sharing by delay-sensitive users Yuanzhang Xiao and Mihaela van der Schaar; Part IV. Networking in C-RAN: 16. Mobility management for C-RANs Haijun Zhang, Julian Cheng and Victor C. M. Leung; 17. Caching in C-RAN Kenza Hamidouche, Walid Saad and Merouane Debbah; 18. A cloud service model and architecture for small-cell RAN Sau-Hsuan Wu, Hsi-Lu Chao, Hsin-Li Chiu, Chun-Hsien Ko, Yun-Ting Li, Ting-Wei Chang, Tong-Lun Tsai and Che Chen; 19. Field trials and testbed design for C-RAN Chih-Lin I, Jinri Huang, Min Yan and Xiaogen Jiang.

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