Challenges and Opportunities in Wireless Fronthaul [PDF]
IEEE Access, 2023 To date the evolution from traditional distributed radio access networks (D-RAN) towards fronthaul oriented centralized (C-RAN) architectures has imposed significant challenges for the underlying transport network.
Dave Townend, Stuart D Walker
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Energy-Efficient Joint Design of Fronthaul and Edge Links for Cache-Aided C-RAN Systems with Wireless Fronthaul [PDF]
Entropy, 2019 This work addresses the joint design of fronthaul and edge links for a cache-aided cloud radio access network (C-RAN) system with a wireless fronthaul link.
Junbeom Kim +3 more
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Fronthaul Design for Wireless Networks [PDF]
Applied Sciences, 2020 Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) architectures have arisen as an alternative to traditional wireless network architectures, notably by taking advantage of the functional split between the multiple distributed Remote Radio Heads (RRHs) and the ...
Ivo Sousa +3 more
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Integrated Wireless-Optical Backhaul and Fronthaul Provision Through Multicore Fiber [PDF]
IEEE Access, 2020 In this paper we propose multicore fiber (MCF) as the medium to transport the different signals associated with various wireless applications (ranging from access to fronthauling and backhauling) from the baseband unit (BBU) to the cell-site.
Luis Gonzalez Guerrero +8 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 ...
Mohamed Alzenad +2 more
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Multi-Band Analog Radio-over-Fiber Mobile Fronthaul System for Indoor Positioning, Beamforming, and Wireless Access [PDF]
SensorsIn response to the urgent demands of the Internet of Things for precise indoor target positioning and information interaction, this paper proposes a multi-band analog radio-over-fiber mobile fronthaul system.
Hang Yang +3 more
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Analysis and Design of Distributed MIMO Networks With a Wireless Fronthaul [PDF]
IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2022 To appear in IEEE Transactions on ...
Hussein A Ammar +2 more
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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 +2 more
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High-fidelity sub-petabit-per-second self-homodyne fronthaul using broadband electro-optic combs [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsWith 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.
Chenbo Zhang +16 more
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Design of Cost-Efficient Optical Fronthaul for 5G/6G Networks: An Optimization Perspective [PDF]
Sensors, 2022 Currently, 5G and the forthcoming 6G mobile communication systems are the most promising cellular generations expected to beat the growing hunger for bandwidth and enable the fully connected world presented by the Internet of Everything (IoE).
Abdulhalim Fayad +3 more
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