Latency Optimized C-RAN in Optical Backhaul and RF Fronthaul Architecture for Beyond 5G Network: A Comprehensive Survey

A Bhandari, AG IEEE, ST IEEE, JJPCR IEEE… - Computer Networks, 2024 - Elsevier
The need for high-speed data connection has significantly strained Mobile Network
Operators (MNOs) due to an exponential increase in traffic. Numerous innovative …

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
The exponential traffic growth, demand for high speed wireless data communications, as
well as incessant deployment of innovative wireless technologies, services, and …

[PDF][PDF] 2) Cloud Radio Access Networks (C-RAN) and optical Mobile backhaul and fronthaul

DH Hailu - 2016 - ntnuopen.ntnu.no
Increasing mobile data traffic due to the rise of both smartphones and tablets has led to high-
capacity demand of mobile data network. To meet the ever-growing capacity demand and …

Mobile fronthaul transport options in C-RAN and emerging research directions: A comprehensive study

DH Hailu, BG Gebrehaweria, SH Kebede… - Optical Switching and …, 2018 - Elsevier
C-RAN is an architecture for future 5G cellular networks, which has the potential of
combining emerging technologies from both the wireless and the Information Technology …

Performance improvement of Ethernet-based fronthaul bridged networks in 5G cloud radio access networks

M Waqar, A Kim - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Featured Application The results of the research can be used in the practical deployments of
the leveraging Ethernet fronthaul bridged networks in the 5G cloud radio access networks …

A study of fronthaul networks in CRANs-requirements and recent advancements

M Waqar, A Kim, PK Cho - KSII Transactions on Internet and …, 2018 - koreascience.kr
One of the most innovative paradigms for the next-generation of wireless cellular networks is
the cloud-radio access networks (C-RANs). In C-RANs, base station functions are distributed …

5G C-RAN with optical fronthaul: An analysis from a deployment perspective

C Ranaweera, E Wong, A Nirmalathas… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The fifth generation (5G) wireless technology is designed to provide significantly faster
Internet access, with lower latency, and ubiquitous mobile coverage compared to its …

Cost saving analysis in capacity-constrained C-RAN fronthaul

JK Chaudhary, J Zou, G Fettweis - 2018 IEEE Globecom …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cloud radio access network (C-RAN) is envisaged as a potential enabler of 5G and future
generation mobile networks to meet the diverse and stringent requirements of 5G use cases …

Cost-efficient optical fronthaul architectures for 5G and future 6G networks

A Fayad, T Cinkler, J Rak… - 2022 IEEE Future …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fifth-generation and Beyond (5GB) wireless networks have introduced new centralized
architectures such as cloud radio access network (CRAN), which necessitate extremely high …

[PDF][PDF] The optical fiber and mmWave wireless convergence for fronthaul 5G networks

TR Raddo, S Rommel, U Johannsen, C Okonkwo… - Proc. ICAIT, 2018 - academia.edu
The most radical evolution in recent mobile communication technology is imminent in the
coming years. The fronthaul network architecture is part of this evolution and is expected to …