On Cloud Radio Access Networks With Cascade Oblivious Relaying

We consider a discrete memoryless cloud radio access network in which K users communicate with a remote destination through 2 relays in a cascade. The relays are oblivious in the sense that they operate without knowledge of the users’ codebooks. We focus on a scenario where the first and second relays are connected through a finite-capacity error-free link, while the second relay is connected to the remote destination via an infinite-capacity link. We establish the capacity region in this case, and show that it is achieved via a compress-and-forward scheme with successive decoding. Finally, the extension to Gaussian networks is discussed.