Reconfigurable optical mobile fronthaul networks for coordinated multipoint transmission and reception in 5G

Journal of Optical Communications and Networking

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 489-497

  Zhang, Jiawei ^a,b   Ji, Yuefeng ^a,b   Jia, Songhao ^a   Li, Hui ^a,b   Yu, Xiaosong ^a   Wang, Xinbo ^c  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

5G transport networks; Cloud radio access network; CoMP; Fronthaul

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; GRAPHIC METHODS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

COMP; COORDINATED MULTI POINT (COMP); COORDINATED MULTI-POINT TRANSMISSIONS; FRONTHAUL; LIGHTPATH RECONFIGURATIONS; RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS; TRANSPORT NETWORKS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK;

PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORKS;

EID: 85028440230     PISSN: 19430620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOCN.9.000489     Document Type: Article

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