Baseband unit cloud interconnection enabled by flexible grid optical networks with software defined elasticity

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 90-98

  Zhang, Jiawei ^a   Ji, Yuefeng ^a   Zhang, Jie ^a   Gu, Rentao ^a   Zhao, Yongli ^a   Liu, Siming ^a   Xu, Kun ^a   Song, Mei ^a   Li, Han ^b   Wang, Xinbo ^c  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b Mobile Research Institute   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

5G mobile communication; Baseband; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical interconnections; Optical network units; Optical switches

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); ELASTICITY; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM INTERCONNECTION; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL SWITCHES;

BASE BANDS; ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; END-TO-END PERFORMANCE; EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; HETEROGENEOUS RESOURCES; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; OPTICAL NETWORK UNITS; STATISTICAL MULTIPLEXING GAINS;

TRANSPARENT OPTICAL NETWORKS;

EID: 84959514987     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2015.7263351     Document Type: Article

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