Paper Info
Title
Medium-Transparent Packet-Based Fronthauling For 5g Hot-Spot Networks
Abstract
In order to meet the traffic density requirement and cope with the technical challenges of hot-spot scenarios exhibiting extreme user density in very confined geographical areas, the fifth generation (5G) networks must undergo radical technological and architectural innovations that support a broad solution portfolio. This solution mix includes spectrum expansion to the millimeter Wave (mmWave) band, massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output antennas and network densification through remote radio head deployment. Since the current Common Public Radio Interface-based mobile fronthaul cannot cope with massive mmWave multi-Gbps traffic streams, it is imperative to introduce a novel converged 5G architecture, specifically designed to facilitate mmWave access to massive amounts of users. To this end, a Medium Transparent Medium Access Control (MT-MAC) protocol has been proposed, designed to operate over a converged mmWave analog Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) fronthaul. MT-MAC allows for fast and direct negotiation of wavelength, radio frequency and time resources between the base band unit and the mmWave users, while offering fast on-demand link formation. However, its performance has not yet been evaluated under 5G heavy-traffic scenarios, as the ones previously described. Hence, in this paper, we investigate the performance of an MT-MAC-enabled fronthaul and report on its suitability for mmWave hot-spot 5G access networks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/ICTON.2018.8473861
2018 20TH ANNIVERSARY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TRANSPARENT OPTICAL NETWORKS (ICTON)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
radio-over-fiber (RoF), optical-wireless, passive-optical-networks (PON), millimetre wave (mmWave), fronthaul, C-RAN
Conference
2162-7339
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kalfas, G.188.61
Pavlos Maniotis235.83
A. Mesodiakaki311.38
S. Papaioannou420.84
Ch. Vagionas500.34
M. Gatzianas601.35
Elli Kartsakli753442.20
J. S. Vardakas89817.23