Medium-Transparent Packet-Based Fronthauling for 5G Hot-Spot Networks
| Autor: | S. Papaioannou, John S. Vardakas, Ch. Vagionas, Marios Gatzianas, Pavlos Maniotis, Elli Kartsakli, George Kalfas, Agapi Mesodiakaki |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Access network
business.industry Computer science Network packet Access control 02 engineering and technology Remote radio head Common Public Radio Interface 020210 optoelectronics & photonics 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Optical wireless business 5G Computer network C-RAN |
| Zdroj: | 2018 20th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON) ICTON |
| DOI: | 10.1109/ICTON.2018.8473861 |
| Popis: | In order to meet the traffic density requirement and cope with the technical challenges of hot-spot scenarios exhibiting extreme user density in very confined geographical areas, the fifth generation (5G) networks must undergo radical technological and architectural innovations that support a broad solution portfolio. This solution mix includes spectrum expansion to the millimeter Wave (mmWave) band, massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output antennas and network densification through remote radio head deployment. Since the current Common Public Radio Interface-based mobile fronthaul cannot cope with massive mmWave multi-Gbps traffic streams, it is imperative to introduce a novel converged 5G architecture, specifically designed to facilitate mmWave access to massive amounts of users. To this end, a Medium Transparent Medium Access Control (MT-MAC) protocol has been proposed, designed to operate over a converged mmWave analog Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) fronthaul. MT-MAC allows for fast and direct negotiation of wavelength, radio frequency and time resources between the base band unit and the mmWave users, while offering fast on-demand link formation. However, its performance has not yet been evaluated under 5G heavy-traffic scenarios, as the ones previously described. Hence, in this paper, we investigate the performance of an MT-MAC-enabled fronthaul and report on its suitability for mmWave hot-spot 5G access networks. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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