Hierarchical edge cloud enabling network slicing for 5G optical fronthaul

C Song, M Zhang, Y Zhan, D Wang, L Guan… - Journal of Optical …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
… 5G optical mobile fronthaul (MFH) network should be jointly exploited. To address this
challenge, we propose a flexible hierarchical edge cloud architecture to enable 5G opticalcloud-…

Optical front/mid-haul with open access-edge server deployment framework for sliced O-RAN

S Mondal, M Ruffini - IEEE Transactions on Network and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… -standard PON-based 5G fronthaul network and experimentally demonstrated its flexible …
a flexible hierarchical edge cloud architecture to enable 5G optical fronthaul network slicing …

Optimized joint allocation of radio, optical, and MEC resources for the 5G and beyond fronthaul

T Lagkas, D Klonidis, P Sarigiannidis… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… allocating all three different types of resources (radio, optical, and MEC) found in the cutting
edge telecommunication fronthaul has been proposed. Moreover, the paper details a new …

Toward an efficient C-RAN optical fronthaul for the future networks: A tutorial on technologies, requirements, challenges, and solutions

IA Alimi, AL Teixeira, PP Monteiro - … Communications Surveys & …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Similarly, the surge in redundant information in the emerging networks will worsen the
backhaul/fronthaul constraints for information exchange between edge users. This is due to the …

Low-delay layout planning based on improved particle swarm optimization algorithm in 5G optical fronthaul network

N Wang, J Liu, J Lu, X Zeng, X Zhao - Optical Fiber Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
… The combined fronthaul network improves the quality of service by the edge computing. …
Aiming at the locations of AAUs in 5G optical fronthaul network, we propose a low-delay oriented …

An edge computing empowered radio access network with UAV-mounted FSO fronthaul and backhaul: Key challenges and approaches

Y Dong, MZ Hassan, J Cheng… - IEEE Wireless …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… retromodulator-based free space optical communication, we propose a novel edge-computing-empowered
radio access network architecture where the fronthaul and backhaul links are …

Upcoming applications driving the design of next-generation metro area networks: dealing with 5G backhaul/fronthaul and edge-cloud computing

D Larrabeiti, JP Fernández-Palacios… - … Data Center Optical …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
… We look into the characteristics of 5G backhaul and fronthaul traffic in section 2. … edge
computing and MAN connectivity requirements to cloud. The trend to push computing to the edge

Optimal slicing of virtualized passive optical networks to support dense deployment of cloud-RAN and multi-access edge computing

S Das, F Slyne, M Ruffini - IEEE Network, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… For this reason, PONs are being recognized as a promising solution for mobile fronthaul (…
the existing optical distribution network (ODN) to provide cost-effective fronthaul connectivity …

Performance analysis of optical mobile fronthaul for cloud radio access networks

J Zhang, Y Xiao, H Li, Y Ji - Journal of Physics: Conference …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
… The edge length of the regular hexadecagon is 2.5 kilometers. The blue lines represent the
… We consider several factors that cause the fronthaul latency. TDM switch latency is to switch …

5G-XHaul: A novel wireless-optical SDN transport network to support joint 5G backhaul and fronthaul services

D Camps-Mur, J Gutierrez, E Grass… - IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
optical bursts multiplexed in time on each wavelength. Packets from each input interface are
received at the TSON edge… The reverse process is implemented at the receiver edge. TSON …