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CIS-RAN: evolving C-RAN towards cooperative, intelligent, and service-based RAN for 6G

Jul 2026 · Science China Information Sciences · Vol 69 · 0 citations · 23 references

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CIS-RAN is proposed, a novel 6G RAN architecture built on three pillars of cooperative, intelligent, and service-based design that enables flexible collaboration across distributed RAN nodes and multi-dimensional domains, integrates intelligence throughout the network, and supports advanced RAN capability exposure as services.

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