Benefits and impact of cloud computing on 5g signal processing: Flexible centralization through cloud-RAN

IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 35-44

  Wübben, Dirk ^a   Rost, Peter ^b   Bartelt, Jens Steven ^c   Lalam, Massinissa ^d   Savin, Valentin ^e   Gorgoglione, Matteo ^e   Dekorsy, Armin ^a   Fettweis, Gerhard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b NEC LABORATORIES EUROPE   (Germany)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d SAGEMCOM   (France)

^e CEA LETI   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MOBILE RADIO SYSTEMS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK FUNCTION VIRTUALIZATION; RADIO BROADCASTING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORMS; COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; CONFIGURABLE COMPUTING; DEDICATED HARDWARE; MULTI-CELL INTERFERENCES; RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS; RADIO ACCESS POINTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING ALGORITHMS;

MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 85032751515     PISSN: 10535888     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MSP.2014.2334952     Document Type: Article

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