Toward greener 5G and beyond radio access networks—A survey

LMP Larsen, HL Christiansen, S Ruepp… - IEEE Open journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile network traffic is increasing and so is the energy consumption. The Radio Access
Network (RAN) part is responsible for the largest share of the mobile network energy …

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 …

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
The commercialization of Cloud-RAN, and Open-RAN in particular, is a key factor to enable
5G cell densification by providing lower cost and more agile deployment of small cells. In …

Towards 6G: fast and self-adaptive dynamic bandwidth allocation for next-generation mobile fronthaul

E Wong, L Ruan - Journal of Optical Communications and …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
6G networks will deliver dynamic and immersive applications that bridge the real and digital
worlds. The next-generation passive optical access network is a potential optical transport …

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
The fifth-generation of mobile radio technologies is expected to be agile, flexible, and
scalable while provisioning ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (uRLLC) …

Flexible access network multi-tenancy using NFV/SDN in TWDM-PON

AF Pakpahan, IS Hwang - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over the past decade, network operators worldwide have regarded passive optical networks
(PONs) as a successful access network system and the preferred technology for fiber-to-the …

Low-latency PON PHY implementation on GPUs for fully software-defined access networks

T Suzuki, SY Kim, J Kani, T Yoshida - IEEE Network, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In order to respond to the increasing diversification of requirements, studies on software-
defined access networks to enhance the flexibility of network systems continues. For fully …

Load adaptive merging algorithm for multi-tenant PON environments

KH Mohammadani, RA Butt, KA Memon… - Optical Switching and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Wavelength division multiplexing\time division multiplexing passive optical network
(WDM/TDM-PON) is the attractive candidate for PON bandwidth sharing among multiple …

Lasers in passive optical networks and the activation process of an end unit: A tutorial

T Horvath, P Munster, NH Bao - Electronics, 2020 - mdpi.com
It is 21 years since the first passive optical network (PON) was standardized as an
asynchronous transfer mode passive optical network (APON) with same optical distribution …

Fairness guaranteed and auction-based x-haul and cloud resource allocation in multi-tenant O-RANs

S Mondal, M Ruffini - IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The open-radio access network (O-RAN) embraces cloudification and network function
virtualization for base-band function processing by dis-aggregated radio units (RUs) …