Xhaul: Toward an integrated fronthaul/backhaul architecture in 5G networks

IEEE Wireless Communications

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 32-40

  De La Oliva, Antonio ^a   Pérez, Xavier Costa ^b   Azcorra, Arturo ^a,c   Di Giglio, Andrea ^d   Cavaliere, Fabio ^e   Tiegelbekkers, Dirk ^f   Lessmann, Johannes ^b   Haustein, Thomas ^g   Mourad, Alain ^h   Iovanna, Paola ^e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b NEC LABORATORIES EUROPE   (Germany)

^c IMDEA NETWORKS INSTITUTE   (Spain)

^d TELECOM ITALIA   (Italy)

^e ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^f NOKIA SIEMENS NETWORKS   (Finland)

^g FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^h INTERDIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

5G mobile communication; Computer architecture; Optical fiber networks; Optical switches; Optics; Protocols; Wireless communication

Indexed keywords

5G MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ABSTRACTING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INTEROPERABILITY; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTICS; QUEUEING NETWORKS; RADIO LINKS; RADIO TRANSMISSION; SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA); STANDARDIZATION; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CENTRALIZED PROCESSING; CONTROL INFRASTRUCTURES; MANAGEMENT ENVIRONMENTS; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; OPTICAL FIBER NETWORKS; POINTS OF PRESENCES; SWITCH ARCHITECTURES; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84946559714     PISSN: 15361284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MWC.2015.7306535     Document Type: Article

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