Things You Should Know About Fronthaul
Top Cited Papers
- 14 January 2015
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in Journal of Lightwave Technology
- Vol. 33 (5), 1077-1083
- https://doi.org/10.1109/jlt.2014.2382872
Abstract
This paper provides a review of the new fronthaul network segment that appears in centralized radio access network (C-RAN) architecture. C-RAN drivers are presented under an operational, economic, and radio point of view. The different fronthaul interfaces are briefly described as they have to be taken into account to build a fronthaul transport solution. Then, fronthaul requirements are detailed going from the technical ones to the business ones. Finally, different fronthaul solutions are presented. Perspectives for medium term evolution including fronthaul supervision are hinted as well as challenges for future mobile evolution toward 5G.Keywords
Funding Information
- European Community (317762)
- Mobile Cloud Networking (318109)
This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
- CWDM networks with dual sub-channel interface for mobile fronthaul and backhaul deploymentPublished by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) ,2014
- Jitter impact on mobile fronthaul linksPublished by Optica Publishing Group ,2014
- Operation of a RSOA WDM PON Self-seeded Transmitter Over More than 50 km of SSMF up to 10 Gb/sPublished by Optica Publishing Group ,2014