A joint backhaul and RAN perspective on the benefits of centralised RAN functions

2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops, ICC 2016

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 226-231

  Jaber, Mona ^a   Owens, David ^a,b   Imran, Muhammad Ali ^a   Tafazolli, Rahim ^a   Tukmanov, Anvar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b MARTLESHAM HEATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Backhaul; C RAN; Cost analysis; D RAN; Fronthaul; Functional split

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; COSTS;

BACKHAUL; CASE STUDY APPROACH; COST ANALYSIS; FRONTHAUL; FUNCTIONAL SPLIT; REMOTE RADIO HEADS; RESOURCE POOLING; STRINGENT REQUIREMENT;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84979763556     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCW.2016.7503792     Document Type: Conference Paper

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