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 …

Non-orthogonal eMBB-URLLC radio access for cloud radio access networks with analog fronthauling

A Matera, R Kassab, O Simeone, U Spagnolini - Entropy, 2018 - mdpi.com
This paper considers the coexistence of Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications
(URLLC) and enhanced Mobile BroadBand (eMBB) services in the uplink of Cloud Radio …

An efficient fronthaul scheme based on coaxial cables for 5G centralized radio access networks

D Acatauassu, M Licá, A Ohashi… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The 5G mobile communication systems introduce multiples functional splits between base
station elements, new transmission bands and a large number of antennas supporting …

A novel distributed antenna access architecture for 5G indoor service provisioning

SHR Naqvi, PH Ho, S Jabeen - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In order to overcome the non-line-of-sight nature of the indoor environment so as to achieve
a cost-effective solution of 5G indoor service provisioning, distribution of antenna units in …

Analog MIMO radio-over-copper downlink with space-frequency to space-frequency multiplexing for multi-user 5G indoor deployments

A Matera, U Spagnolini - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Radio access network (RAN) centralization is at the basis of current mobile networks, in
which BaseBand Units (BBUs) and radio antenna units (RAUs) exchange over the …

Precoding design for the MIMO-RoC downlink

V Rizzello, M Joham, A Matera… - ICASSP 2019-2019 …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
MIMO Radio-over-Copper (MIMO-RoC) is a transport system for indoor coverage that
leverages the pre-existing building's copper cabling infrastructure. In MIMO-RoC, the overall …

Analog MIMO radio-over-copper: prototype and preliminary experimental results

A Matera, V Rampa, M Donati… - 2019 16th …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Analog Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Radio-over-Copper (A-MIMO-RoC) is an effective all-
analog FrontHaul (FH) architecture that exploits any pre-existing Local Area Network (LAN) …

Low-complexity optimal scheduler for LTE over LAN cable

SHR Naqvi, S Jabeen, PH Ho - 2018 International Conference …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Centralized Radio Access Network (C-RAN) is a promising architecture for handling
complex interference scenarios generated by massive antennas that are anticipated in the …

Effective indoor coverage via radio-over-cable fronthauls: Analog fronthauls come of age

SHR Naqvi, PH Ho, L Peng - IEEE Vehicular Technology …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article considers a radio-over-cable (RoC) based analog link on a local area network
(LAN) cable [eg, category (CAT) 5] as the last hop of the fronthaul for indoor mobile service …

[PDF][PDF] Enhancing Indoor Coverage by Multi-Pairs Copper Cables: The Analog MIMO Radio-over-Copper Architecture

A Matera - Special Topics in Information Technology, 2020 - library.oapen.org
Nowadays, the majority of indoor coverage issues arise from networks that are mainly
designed for outdoor scenarios. Outdoor networks, somewhat uncontrollably, may penetrate …