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Harnessing Free Space Optics for Efficient 6G Fronthaul Networks: Challenges and Opportunities
Engineering ReportsAs standardization work is ongoing for the upcoming sixth generation of cellular networking (6G), exploring new technologies for low‐latency, high‐bandwidth fronthauling technologies becomes a crucial aspect for the overall system performance. Free space
Abdulhalim Fayad +3 more
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IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, 2023 This paper proposes novel designs of line-of-sight multiple-input multiple-output (LOS-MIMO) and a unique sample-level coding scheme for wireless fronthaul (WFH) deployment in Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) and beyond the fifth-generation (5G) systems.
Juergen Cezanne +6 more
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Jurnal Rekayasa Elektrika, 2023 Optical fiber can meet the demand for fronthaul on 5G networks that offer high bandwidth, large capacity, high data rate and is free from electromagnetic interference. However, deploying infrastructure faces issues like permits and high costs.
Nabila Syadzwina Effendi +2 more
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Implementation of a Full Optically-Powered 5G NR Fiber-Wireless System
IEEE Photonics Journal, 2022 We report the implementation of a full optically-powered 5G new radio (5G NR) fiber-wireless (FiWi) system based on power-over-fiber (PoF) and radio-over-fiber (RoF) technologies.
Leticia Carneiro de Souza +2 more
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Flexible Function Splitting and Resource Allocation in C-RAN for Delay Critical Applications
IEEE Access, 2020 The concept of cloud radio access network (C-RAN) architecture is being proposed to fully meet the requirements of 5G mobile networks. Thanks to the centralized cloud baseband unit (BBU), C-RAN reduces the energy consumption and cost of deployment ...
Masumehsadat Tohidi +2 more
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Future Internet, 2021 Cloud-Radio Access Network (RAN) is one of the architectural solutions for those mobile networks that aim to provide an infrastructure that satisfies the communication needs of a wide range of services and deployments.
Ghizlane Mountaser, Toktam Mahmoodi
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Entropy, 2019 In modern implementations of Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN), the fronthaul transport network will often be packet-based and it will have a multi-hop architecture built with general-purpose switches using network function virtualization (NFV) and ...
Seok-Hwan Park +2 more
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IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, 2022 As a promising candidate for the future generations of mobile communication networks, the cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) networks have been shown to provide high spectral efficiency (SE) and more uniform signal coverage ...
Kui Xu +5 more
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Applied Sciences, 2019 Cloud radio access networks (C-RANs) are emerging architectural solutions to anticipate the increased capacity and quality demands of future 5G cellular networks at a reduced cost. In C-RANs, a transport segment referred to as fronthaul has been defined,
Muhammad Waqar, Ajung Kim
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Designing Cost- and Energy-Efficient Cell-free Massive MIMO Network with Fiber and FSO Fronthaul Links [PDF]
AUT Journal of Electrical Engineering, 2021 The emerging cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) is a promising scheme to tackle the capacity crunch in wireless networks. Designing the optimal fronthaul network in the CF-mMIMIO is of utmost importance to deploy a cost and ...
Pouya Agheli +2 more
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