Wireless-Optical Network Convergence: Enabling the 5G Architecture to Support Operational and End-User Services

Markos Anastasopoulos

doi:10.1109/MCOM.2017.1600643

Wireless-Optical Network Convergence: Enabling the 5G Architecture to Support Operational and End-User Services

Markos Anastasopoulos

High Performance Networks Group (HPN)

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This article presents a converged 5G network infrastructure and an overarching architecture to jointly support operational network and end-user services, proposed by the EU 5G PPP project 5G-XHaul. The 5G-XHaul infrastructure adopts a common fronthaul/backhaul network solution, deploying a wealth of wireless technologies and a hybrid active/passive optical transport, supporting flexible fronthaul split options. This infrastructure is evaluated through a novel modeling. Numerical results indicate significant energy savings at the expense of increased end-user service delay.

Original language	English
Number of pages	9
Journal	IEEE Communications Magazine
Early online date	3 Aug 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.2017.1600643
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 3 Aug 2017

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5G
backhauling
fronthauling
small cells
C-RAN

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