SDN-controlled topology-reconfigurable optical mobile fronthaul architecture for bidirectional CoMP and low latency inter-cell D2D in the 5G mobile era

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 20809-20815

  Cvijetic, Neda ^a   Tanaka, Akihiro ^a   Kanonakis, Konstantinos ^a   Wang, Ting ^a  

^a NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOPOLOGY;

COORDINATED MULTI POINT (COMP); DYNAMIC RECONFIGURABILITY; ELECTRICAL SWITCHING; FIBER DEPLOYMENTS; LOW LATENCY; MOBILE NETWORKING; MOBILE SYSTEMS; NEW APPROACHES;

RECONFIGURABLE ARCHITECTURES;

EID: 84906761877     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.020809     Document Type: Article

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