Title
5G Fronthaul Design Based on Software-defined and Virtualized Radio Access Network
Abstract
5G mobile communication has become a focused area in recent years. In order to provide higher quality of services, 5G network needs a novel architecture. C-Radio Access Network (C- RAN) is an RAN architecture viewed as the evolution from LTE to 5G network, although it still has many problems to solve. Next Generation Fronthaul Interface (NGFI), as a new interface of the fronthaul based on Ethernet, will make the fronthaul more efficient and flexible. As the Operator-RAN (O-RAN) and extensible-RAN (xRAN) state, Software-defined Network (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) should be introduced to RAN to make it more flexible and efficient. Meanwhile, it also brings new issues such as latency and jitter of the fronthaul. This paper has proposed an approach to reducing the latency and jitter. Besides, we have also built an experimental 5G system to validate that NFV Infrastructure (NFVI) platform can increase the scalability of the system at cost of a slight decrease of performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/WOCC.2019.8770629
2019 28th Wireless and Optical Communications Conference (WOCC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
5G Fronthaul,C-RAN,NGFI,NFV,virtualization,latency,jitter
Computer science,Server,Computer network,Ethernet,Jitter,Radio access network,Access network,Mobile telephony,Network interface,Scalability
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2379-1268
978-1-7281-0661-8
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
1
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shihao Su100.34
Xibin Xu234138.95
Zhigang Tian331824.48
Ming Zhao44410.39
Wenbo Wang535.48