IEEE Photonics Journal, 2021 This paper reports an end-to-end demonstration of a fiber-wireless mobile fronthaul (MFH) network based on hybrid intermediate-frequency-over-fiber (IFoF) and radio-over-fiber (RoF) links using a 28-GHz millimeter-wave (MMW) band.
Hsuan-Yun Kao +4 more
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Energy and Transmission Efficiency Enhancement in Passive Optical Network Enabled Reconfigurable Fronthaul Supporting Smart Homes. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel), 2020 Smart home technologies are growing actively all around the world. As a result, great pressures are imposed on internet of things networks by dynamic traffic and plenty of devices.
Gu R, Wang G, Li Z, Ji Y.
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A Transport Scheme for Reducing Delays and Jitter in Ethernet-Based 5G Fronthaul Networks
IEEE Access, 2018 Fronthaul networks are leveraging communication links between the remote radio heads and baseband units in cloud radio access networks, and common public radio interface (CPRI) is an interface to carry time-sensitive traffic over the fronthaul.
Muhammad Waqar, Ajung Kim, Peter K. Cho
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High-Capacity 5G Fronthaul Networks Based on Optical Space Division Multiplexing
IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, 2019 The introduction of 5G mobile networks, bringing multi-Gbit/s user data rates and reduced latency, opens new opportunities for media generation, transport and distribution, as well as for new immersive media applications.
S. Rommel +5 more
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High Spectrum Efficiency and High Security Radio-Over-Fiber Systems with Compressive-Sensing-Based Chaotic Encryption. [PDF]
Micromachines (Basel)With the increasing demand for high throughput and ultra-dense small cell deployment in the next-generation communication networks, spectrum resources are becoming increasingly strained.
Wang Z +5 more
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FSO-Based Vertical Backhaul/Fronthaul Framework for 5G+ Wireless Networks [PDF]
IEEE Communications Magazine, 2018 The presence of a super high rate, but also cost-efficient, easy-to-deploy, and scalable, backhaul/fronthaul framework is essential in the upcoming fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks \& beyond. Motivated by the mounting interest in the unmanned flying platforms of various types including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), drones, balloons, and ...
Alzenad, Mohamed +3 more
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Cell-Free UAV Networks With Wireless Fronthaul: Analysis and Optimization
IEEE Transactions on Wireless CommunicationsThe use of uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) in cell-free networks is poised to unleash a number of new opportunities to further improve wireless networks.
Carles Díaz-Vilor +2 more
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High-fidelity sub-petabit-per-second self-homodyne fronthaul using broadband electro-optic combs. [PDF]
Nat CommunWith the exponential growth in data density and user ends of wireless networks, fronthaul is tasked with supporting aggregate bandwidths exceeding thousands of gigahertz while accommodating high-order modulation formats.
Zhang C +16 more
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Fronthaul Compression Control for Shared Fronthaul Access Networks
IEEE Communications Magazine, 2022 paper to appear in IEEE Communications ...
Lagen S. +4 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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