TY - JOUR
T1 - 5G-XHaul
T2 - a converged optical and wireless solution for 5G transport networks
AU - Gutiérrez, Jesús
AU - Maletic, Nebojsa
AU - Camps-Mur, Daniel
AU - García, Eduard
AU - Berberana, Ignacio
AU - Anastasopoulos, Markos
AU - Tzanakaki, Anna
AU - Kalokidou, Vaia
AU - Flegkas, Paris
AU - Syrivelis, Dimitris
AU - Korakis, Thanasis
AU - Legg, Peter
AU - Markovic, Dusan
AU - Lyberopoulos, George
AU - Bartelt, Jens
AU - Chaudhary, Jay Kant
AU - Grieger, Michael
AU - Vucic, Nikola
AU - Zou, Jim
AU - Grass, Eckhard
N1 - Special issue: 5GPPP Feature Issue
PY - 2017/9/5
Y1 - 2017/9/5
N2 - The common European Information and Communications Technology sector vision for 5G is that it should leverage on the strengths of both optical and wireless technologies. In the 5G context, a wide spectra of radio access technologies—such as millimetre wave transmission, massive multiple-input multiple-output and new waveforms—demand for high capacity, highly flexible and convergent transport networks. As the requirements imposed on future 5G networks rise, so do the challenges in the transport network. Hence, 5G-XHaul proposes a converged optical and wireless transport network solution with a unified control plane based on software defined networking. This solution is able to support the flexible backhaul and fronthaul—X-Haul—options required to tackle the future challenges imposed by 5G radio access technologies. 5G-XHaul studies the trade-offs involving fully or partially converged backhaul and fronthaul functions, with the aim of maximising the associated sharing benefits, improving efficiency in resource utilisation and providing measurable benefits in terms of overall cost, scalability and sustainability.
AB - The common European Information and Communications Technology sector vision for 5G is that it should leverage on the strengths of both optical and wireless technologies. In the 5G context, a wide spectra of radio access technologies—such as millimetre wave transmission, massive multiple-input multiple-output and new waveforms—demand for high capacity, highly flexible and convergent transport networks. As the requirements imposed on future 5G networks rise, so do the challenges in the transport network. Hence, 5G-XHaul proposes a converged optical and wireless transport network solution with a unified control plane based on software defined networking. This solution is able to support the flexible backhaul and fronthaul—X-Haul—options required to tackle the future challenges imposed by 5G radio access technologies. 5G-XHaul studies the trade-offs involving fully or partially converged backhaul and fronthaul functions, with the aim of maximising the associated sharing benefits, improving efficiency in resource utilisation and providing measurable benefits in terms of overall cost, scalability and sustainability.
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U2 - 10.1002/ett.3063
DO - 10.1002/ett.3063
M3 - Article (Academic Journal)
AN - SCOPUS:84978198771
SN - 2161-5748
VL - 27
SP - 1187
EP - 1195
JO - Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies
JF - Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies
IS - 9
ER -