Title
A Scheduling Algorithm for Low Jitter in Ethernet-Based Fronthaul
Abstract
Due to the low cost, high bandwidth and compatibility of Ethernet, Ethernet-based fronthaul has been utilized to carry sampled radio frequency (RF) signals from radio equipment (RE) to the radio equipment controller (REC). Meeting the stringent performance requirements regarding jitter for the Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI) over Ethernet is challenging. In this paper, a time division multiplexing (TDM) slot-based scheduling (TSS) algorithm is proposed to minimize the jitter; this algorithm consists of two main modules: slot greedy allocation and low-delay collaboration. Specifically, low-complexity slot greedy allocation aims to solve the NP-hard problem caused by the optimal slot allocation, and the low-delay collaboration among different switches is employed to avoid the large delays caused by a strict slot assignment. In the Ethernet-based fronthaul network, the simulation results demonstrate that, compared with the conventional benchmark algorithm, the TSS algorithm ensures lower jitter, and this significant decrease is achieved without incurring a large delay.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ISCC47284.2019.8969674
2019 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Fronthaul,Scheduling Algorithm,Ethernet,TSS
Common Public Radio Interface,Radio equipment,Computer science,Scheduling (computing),Fronthaul,Computer network,Radio frequency,Ethernet,Jitter,Time-division multiplexing
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1530-1346
978-1-7281-3000-2
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
6
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Long Wang13846236.00
Que Xirong262.27
Xiangyang Gong316123.01
Ye Tian4247.64
Tongtong Wang511.36
Xinyuan Wang600.34