Fronthaul and backhaul requirements of flexibly centralized radio access networks

IEEE Wireless Communications

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 105-111

  Bartelt, Jens ^a   Rost, Peter ^b   Wübben, Dirk ^c   Lessmann, Johannes ^d   Melis, Bruno ^e   Fettweis, Gerhard ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b NOKIA SIEMENS NETWORKS   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^d NEC LABORATORIES EUROPE   (Germany)

^e TELECOM ITALIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Convergence; Joints; Layout; Quality of service; Radio access networks; Switches; Uplink

Indexed keywords

JOINTS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SWITCHES;

BACKHAUL NETWORKS; BASEBAND PROCESSORS; CONVERGENCE; DECENTRALIZED NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; LAYOUT; PROCESSING CHAIN; RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS; UPLINK;

RADIO;

EID: 84946554659     PISSN: 15361284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MWC.2015.7306544     Document Type: Article

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