X-Ethemet: Enabling integrated fronthaul/backhaul architecture in 5G networks

2017 IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking, CSCN 2017

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 121-125

  Li, Rixin ^a   Wang, Renlei ^a   Halachmi, Nir ^a   Zhong, Qiwen ^a   Cheng, Weiqiang ^b   Wang, Lei ^c   Wang, Jiao ^c  

^a HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO LTD   (China)

^b CHINA MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION   (China)

^c EUROPEAN RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

5G; Backhaul; C RAN; Fronthaul; X Ethernet; XHaul

Indexed keywords

ETHERNET; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; QUEUEING NETWORKS; SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA);

BACKHAUL; EMERGING APPLICATIONS; FRONTHAUL; INTERFACE TECHNOLOGY; MANAGEMENT ENVIRONMENTS; NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES; STRINGENT REQUIREMENT; XHAUL;

5G MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 85040164579     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSCN.2017.8088609     Document Type: Conference Paper

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