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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, Ryan Husbands, Stuart D. Walker, Andy Sutton   +3 more
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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, Daesung Yu, Seung-Eun Hong, Seok-Hwan Park   +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, Nuno Sousa, Maria Paula Queluz, António Rodrigues   +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 ...
Shahram Shahbazpanahi, Hussein Ammar, Raviraj S Adve   +2 more
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End-to-End Demonstration of Fiber-Wireless Fronthaul Networks Using a Hybrid Multi-IF-Over-Fiber and Radio-Over-Fiber System

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, Shota Ishimura, Kazuki Tanaka, Kosuke Nishimura, Ryo Inohara   +4 more
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Multi-Band Analog Radio-over-Fiber Mobile Fronthaul System for Indoor Positioning, Beamforming, and Wireless Access [PDF]

Sensors
In 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, Wei Tian, Jianhua Li, Yang Chen   +3 more
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High-fidelity sub-petabit-per-second self-homodyne fronthaul using broadband electro-optic combs [PDF]

Nature Communications
With 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, Yixiao Zhu, Jingjing Lin, Bibo He, Rongwei Liu, Yicheng Xu, Nuo Chen, Xuanjian He, Jinming Tao, Zhike Zhang, Tao Chu, Lilin Yi, Qunbi Zhuge, Weiwei Hu, Zhangyuan Chen, Weisheng Hu, Xiaopeng Xie   +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, Tibor Cinkler, Jacek Rak, Manish Jha   +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, Maria Morant, Tongyun Li, Martyn J. Fice, Alwyn J. Seeds, Roberto Llorente, Ian H. White, Richard V. Penty, Cyril C. Renaud   +8 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, Ramon Maia Borges, Nicola Andriolli, Evandro Conforti, Giampiero Contestabile, Arismar Cerqueira Sodré   +5 more
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