5G fronthaul-latency and jitter studies of CPRI over ethernet

Journal of Optical Communications and Networking

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 172-182

  Chitimalla, Divya ^a   Kondepu, Koteswararao ^b,c   Valcarenghi, Luca ^b,c   Tornatore, Massimo ^a   Mukherjee, Biswanath ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

5G; CPRI over Ethernet; Fronthaul; Jitter; Scheduling; Time sensitive networking (TSN)

Indexed keywords

BASE STATIONS; JITTER; RADIO BROADCASTING; RADIO EQUIPMENT; SCHEDULING;

ATTRACTIVE SOLUTIONS; FRONTHAUL; INDUSTRY COOPERATION; INTERNAL INTERFACES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PUBLICLY AVAILABLE SPECIFICATIONS; SCHEDULING POLICIES; TIME-SENSITIVE NETWORKING (TSN);

ETHERNET;

EID: 85013420756     PISSN: 19430620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOCN.9.000172     Document Type: Article

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