Capacity Bounds and Coding Schemes for Cloud Radio Access Networks

Author(s): Ganguly, Shouvik | Advisor(s): Kim, Young-Han | Abstract: Cloud radio access networks (C-RANs) have been touted as a viable alternative tocurrent communication network architectures for handling larger data volumes and higherthroughput requirements, in order to serve a growing number of data-hungry devices.In this dissertation, we study information theoretic models of uplink and downlinkC-RANs and explore questions on optimal data throughputs and large-network sizeasymptotics. In addition, as a rst step on the path to achieving these tradeos inpractice, we demonstrate how one can build codes for multiuser networks and providefinite-blocklength performance guarantees by starting from single-user codes.