Transport Abstraction Models for an SDN-Controlled Centralized RAN

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1406-1409

  Fiorani, Matteo ^a   Rostami, Ahmad ^b   Wosinska, Lena ^a   Monti, Paolo ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Sweden)

Author keywords

backhaul; centralized RAN (C RAN); fronthaul; Software defined networking (SDN); transport abstraction; wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; BALLOONS; COMPLEX NETWORKS; RADIO; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

BACKHAUL; CENTRALIZED RAN (C-RAN); FRONTHAUL; SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING (SDN); TRANSPORT ABSTRACTION;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

EID: 84939453146     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2015.2446480     Document Type: Article

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