Bidirectional fiber-wireless access technology for 5G mobile spectral aggregation and cell densification

M Xu, JH Yan, J Zhang, F Lu, J Wang… - Journal of Optical …, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Empowered by spectral aggregation and cell densification, future 5G mobile data networks
pose a huge challenge to building next-generation mobile fronthaul systems with higher …

Efficient mobile fronthaul via DSP-based channel aggregation

X Liu, H Zeng, N Chand… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile fronthaul is an important network segment that bridges wireless baseband units and
remote radio units to support cloud radio access network. We review recent progresses on …

Reconfigurable optical mobile fronthaul networks for coordinated multipoint transmission and reception in 5G

J Zhang, Y Ji, S Jia, H Li, X Yu, X Wang - Journal of Optical …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
The fifth generation of mobile communication is characterized by ultra-dense cellular
networks, where massive small cells are deployed in hot spots to increase the network …

Digital code-division multiplexing channel aggregation for mobile fronthaul architecture with low complexity

H Li, Q Yang, S Fu, M Luo, X Li, Z He… - IEEE Photonics …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A low-complexity mobile fronthaul architecture via digital code-division multiplexing (CDM)
is proposed to enable channel aggregation of 4G-LTE signals. In comparison with traditional …

Performance analysis of analog IF over fiber fronthaul link with 4G and 5G coexistence

A Delmade, C Browning, A Farhang… - Journal of Optical …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Fifth generation (5G) mobile communications will require a dense deployment of small cell
antenna sites and higher channel bandwidth, in conjunction with a cloud radio access …

Delta-sigma modulation for next generation fronthaul interface

J Wang, Z Jia, LA Campos, C Knittle - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
A new function split option for the next generation fronthaul interface (NGFI) is demonstrated
based on all-digital RF transmitter using bandpass delta-sigma modulation. Different from …

High-capacity 5G fronthaul networks based on optical space division multiplexing

S Rommel, D Perez-Galacho… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The introduction of 5G mobile networks, bringing multi-Gbit/s user data rates and reduced
latency, opens new opportunities for media generation, transport and distribution, as well as …

Wavelength resource sharing in bidirectional optical mobile fronthaul

M Zhu, F Li, F Lu, J Yu, C Su, G Gu… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose high-capacity spectrally-efficient optical mobile fronthaul (MFH)
architectures featuring wavelength resource sharing, where multiple cell sites share one …

Optimal BBU placement for 5G C-RAN deployment over WDM aggregation networks

F Musumeci, C Bellanzon, N Carapellese… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2016 - opg.optica.org
5G mobile access targets unprecedented performance, not only in terms of higher data rates
per user and lower latency, but also in terms of network intelligence and capillarity. To …

Digital mobile fronthaul based on delta–sigma modulation for 32 LTE carrier aggregation and FBMC signals

J Wang, Z Yu, K Ying, J Zhang, F Lu, M Xu… - Journal of Optical …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We first experimentally demonstrated a digital mobile fronthaul (MFH) architecture using
delta–sigma modulation as the new digitization interface to replace the conventional …