RT Conference Proceedings
T1 Packet forwarding for heterogeneous technologies for integrated fronthaul/backhaul
A1 Deiss, Thomas
A1 Cominardi, Luca
A1 Garcia Saavedra, Andres
A1 Iovanna, Paola
A1 Landi, Giada
A1 Li, Xi
A1 Mangues-Bafalluy, Josep
A1 Núñez-Martínez, José
A1 Oliva Delgado, Antonio de la
AB To meet the future mobile user demand at a reduced cost, operators are looking at solutions such as C-RAN and different functional splits to decrease the cost of deploying and maintaining cell sites. The use of these technologies forces operators to manage two physically separated networks, one for backhaul and one for fronthaul. To solve this issue, transport networks for 5G will carry both fronthaul and backhaul traffic operating over heterogeneous data plane technologies. Such an integrated fronthaul/backhaul (denoted as 5G-Crosshaul) transport network will be software-controlled to adapt to the fluctuating capacity demand of the new generation air interfaces. Based on a proposed data- and control-plane architecture for 5G-Crosshaul, we propose a frame format common to both fronthaul and backhaul traffic as well as a corresponding abstraction of the forwarding behavior of the network elements. The common frame format and the forwarding abstraction define the information to be exchanged at the southbound interface (SBI) of the 5G-Crosshaul Control Infrastructure (XCI). This paper derives requirements for the SBI from 5G use cases.
PB IEEE
SN 978-1-5090-2893-1
YR 2016
FD 2016-06-27
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/25926
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/25926
LA eng
NO Proceeding of: 2016 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC)
NO The authors of this paper have been sponsored in part by the project H2020-ICT-2014-2 “5G-Crosshaul”: The 5G integrated fronthaul/backhaul” (671598)
DS e-Archivo
RD 5 jul. 2024