Energy-Efficient Virtual Base Station Formation in Optical-Access-Enabled Cloud-RAN

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1130-1139

  Wang, Xinbo ^a   Thota, Saigopal ^a   Tornatore, Massimo ^a,b   Chung, Hwan Seok ^c   Lee, Han Hyub ^c   Park, Soomyung ^c   Mukherjee, Biswanath ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

CRAN; DU cloud; energy efficiency; fronthaul; Optical access; TWDM PON

Indexed keywords

BASE STATIONS; DIGITAL RADIO; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; NEXT GENERATION NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

CRAN; FRONTHAUL; INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMS; LOW ENERGY CONSUMPTION; NEXT GENERATION ACCESS NETWORKS; OPTICAL ACCESS; OPTICAL ACCESS NETWORKS; TWDM-PON;

PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORKS;

EID: 84976447939     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2016.2520247     Document Type: Article

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