A cloud radio access network with power over fiber toward 5G networks: QoE-guaranteed design and operation

IEEE Wireless Communications

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 58-64

  Miyanabe, Keisuke ^a   Suto, Katsuya ^a   Fadlullah, Zubair Md ^a   Nishiyama, Hiroki ^a   Kato, Nei ^a   Ujikawa, Hirotaka ^b   Suzuki, Ken Ichi ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALLOONS; DESIGN; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

COMMUNICATION SERVICE; DESIGN AND OPERATIONS; EXTERNAL POWER SUPPLIES; INSTALLATION COSTS; OPTICAL LINE TERMINALS; OPTICAL POWER TRANSMISSION; QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE (QOE); RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS;

PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORKS;

EID: 84940470780     PISSN: 15361284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MWC.2015.7224728     Document Type: Article

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