Demonstration of dynamic resource sharing benefits in an optical C-RAN

Journal of Optical Communications and Networking

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 621-632

  Raza, Muhammad Rehan ^a   Fiorani, Matteo ^a   Rostami, Ahmad ^b   Öhlen, Peter ^b   Wosinska, Lena ^a   Monti, Paolo ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Sweden)

Author keywords

5G transport; Centralized radio access network; Dynamic resource sharing; Fronthaul; Optical network emulator; Software defined networking

Indexed keywords

BASE STATIONS; TRANSPORTATION;

5G TRANSPORT; DYNAMIC RESOURCE SHARING; FRONTHAUL; NETWORK EMULATORS; RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS;

SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING;

EID: 84980332083     PISSN: 19430620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOCN.8.000621     Document Type: Article

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