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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Challenges and Opportunities in Wireless Fronthaul
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 +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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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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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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Integrated optical frequency comb for 5G NR Xhauls [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 We experimentally demonstrate the use of optical frequency combs (OFCs), generated by a photonic integrated circuit (PIC), in a flexible optical distribution network based on fiber-optics and free-space optics (FSOs) links, aimed at the fifth generation ...
Eduardo Saia Lima +5 more
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Outage Analysis for Millimeter-Wave Fronthaul Link of UAV-Aided Wireless Networks [PDF]
IEEE Access, 2020 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-wireless networks represent a promising solution to expand the reach of mobile connectivity beyond current boundaries. When Distributed Units (DUs) are deployed on the UAV, the high rate requirement on the wireless Fronthaul
Gianluca Fontanesi +2 more
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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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