Design and deployment of optical x-haul for 5G, 6G, and beyond: progress and challenges

C Ranaweera, C Lim, Y Tao, S Edirisinghe… - Journal of Optical …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Sixth generation (6G) wireless technology, which is the next giant leap in the evolution of
wireless communication, has been gaining great interest from academia, industry, and the …

Cell-free massive MIMO in O-RAN: Energy-aware joint orchestration of cloud, fronthaul, and radio resources

ÖT Demir, M Masoudi, E Björnson… - IEEE Journal on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For the energy-efficient deployment of cell-free massive MIMO functionality in a practical
wireless network, the end-to-end (from radio site to the cloud) energy-aware operation is …

Prospective evaluation of next generation wireless broadband technologies: 6G versus Wi-Fi 7/8

E Oughton, G Geraci, M Polese… - Available at SSRN …, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract Currently, 5G and Wi-Fi 6 are now being deployed in tandem across the globe.
Consequently, major research and development activities have already begun for the next …

Toward 6G Optical Fronthaul: A Survey on Enabling Technologies and Research Perspectives

A Fayad, T Cinkler, J Rak - IEEE Communications Surveys & …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The anticipated launch of the Sixth Generation (6G) of mobile technology by 2030 will mark
a significant milestone in the evolution of wireless communication, ushering in a new era …

Energy Conservation in Passive Optical Networks: A Tutorial and Survey

SHS Newaz, E Ahvar, MS Ahsan… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Passive Optical Network (PON) has been evolving continuously in terms of architecture
and capacity to keep up with the demand for high-speed Internet access in the access …

From ORAN to cell-free RAN: Architecture, performance analysis, testbeds and trials

Y Cao, Z Zhang, X Xia, P Xin, D Liu, K Zheng… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Open radio access network (ORAN) provides an open architecture to implement radio
access network (RAN) of the fifth generation (5G) and beyond mobile communications. As a …

A Multi-Level Deep RL-Based Network Slicing and Resource Management for O-RAN-Based 6G Cell-Free Networks

N Ghafouri, JS Vardakas, K Ramantas… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the deployment of the fifth generation (5G) of cellular networks, the focus of the
information society has switched to the next era in which the limitations of 5G will be …

Distributed User-Centric Cell-Free Massive MIMO with Architectural Constraints

PG Burguera, H Al-Tous… - 2024 Joint European …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider a network-level coordination architecture operating on a disaggregated Radio
Access Network (RAN). We introduce the concept of Remote Radio Head (RRH) multi …

Computational load management strategies in cell-free-based, converged-optical-wireless 6G networks

IP Keramidi, JS Vardakas, K Ramantas… - ICC 2023-IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The evolution of the telecommunication networks towards their 6th generation has emerged
new research directions in order to deal with the challenges that are posed by the high …

Preserving Data Privacy for ML-driven Applications in Open Radio Access Networks

P Gajjar, A Chiejina, VK Shah - arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.09710, 2024 - arxiv.org
Deep learning offers a promising solution to improve spectrum access techniques by
utilizing data-driven approaches to manage and share limited spectrum resources for …