Rethink fronthaul for soft RAN

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 82-88

  I, Chih Lin ^a   Yuan, Yannan ^a   Huang, Jinri ^a   Ma, Shijia ^a   Cui, Chunfeng ^a   Duan, Ran ^a  

^a China Mobile Research Institute   (China)

Author keywords

5G mobile communication; Bandwidth allocation; Collaboration; Regional area networks; Synchronization; Telecommunication traffic

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; ETHERNET; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SYNCHRONIZATION; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

COLLABORATION; COLLABORATIVE TECHNOLOGIES; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; REDUCED BANDWIDTHS; REGIONAL AREAS; TIME AND FREQUENCY SYNCHRONIZATIONS; TRANSMISSION EFFICIENCY;

BANDWIDTH;

EID: 84959576768     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2015.7263350     Document Type: Article

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