Virtual RATs and a flexible and tailored radio access network evolving to 5G

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 52-58

  Chen, Shanzhi ^a   Zhao, Jian ^a   Ai, Ming ^a   Liu, Dake ^b   Peng, Ying ^a  

^a State Key Laboratory of Wireless Mobile Communications China Academy of Telecommunications Technology (CATT)   (China)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

ESSENTIAL FEATURES; FLEXIBLE CONTROL; HIGH-LEVEL DESIGN; MOBILE WIRELESS NETWORK; PLANE SEPARATION; PROTOCOL STACK; RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS; RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGIES;

RATS;

EID: 84933040805     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2015.7120045     Document Type: Article

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