arxiveess.SP2026-07-08
Energy Efficiency Optimization in Distributed MIMO vRAN via Cross-Layer Link Abstraction
Jaebum Park, Chan-Byoung Chae, Robert W. Heath
Virtualized radio access networks (vRAN) run the compute-intensive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) baseband as software on shared servers, which makes energy efficiency (EE) a primary design objective. Distributed MIMO vRAN consumes power across virtualized distributed unit…