Toward an Efficient C-RAN Optical Fronthaul for the Future Networks: A Tutorial on Technologies, Requirements, Challenges, and Solutions

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 708-769

  Alimi, Isiaka Ajewale ^a   Teixeira, Antonio Luis ^a   Monteiro, Paulo Pereira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Bandwidth allocation (BA); cloud radio access network (C RAN); free space optical (FSO) communication; fronthaul; functional split; next generation network (NGN); offloading; passive optical network (PON); power over fiber (PoF); relay assisted transmission; RF FSO technology; software defined optical network (SDON)

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COST EFFECTIVENESS; DIGITAL RADIO; MILLIMETER WAVES; MIMO SYSTEMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK PERFORMANCE; NEXT GENERATION NETWORKS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL LINKS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RADIO BROADCASTING; RADIO TRANSMISSION; RADIO-OVER-FIBER; SPACE POWER GENERATION; WI-FI; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

FREE SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; FRONTHAUL; FUNCTIONAL SPLIT; OFFLOADING; POWER OVER FIBER; RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS; RELAY-ASSISTED TRANSMISSIONS;

PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORKS;

EID: 85035105490     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2017.2773462     Document Type: Review

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