RT Journal Article
T1 5G-crosshaul: an SDN/NFV integrated fronthaul/backhaul transport network architecture
A1 Costa-Pérez, Xavier
A1 García-Saavedra, Andrés
A1 Li, Xi
A1 Deiss, Thomas
A1 Oliva Delgado, Antonio de la
A1 Di Giglio, Andrea
A1 Iovanna, Paola
A1 Mourad, Alain
AB This article proposes an innovative architecture design for a 5G transport solution (dubbed 5G-Crosshaul) targeting the integration of existing and new fronthaul and backhaul technologies and interfaces. At the heart of the proposed design lie an SDN/NFV-based management and orchestration entity (XCI), and an Ethernet-based packet forwarding entity (XFE) supporting various fronthaul and backhaul traffic QoS profiles. The XCI lever-ages widespread architectural frameworks for NFV (ETSI NFV) and SDN (Open Daylight and ONOS). It opens the 5G transport network as a service for innovative network applications on top (e.g., multi-tenancy, resource management), provisioning the required network and IT resources in a flexible, cost-effective, and abstract manner. The proposed design supports the concept of network slicing pushed by the industry for realizing a truly flexible, sharable, and cost-effective future 5G system.
PB IEEE
SN 1536-1284
YR 2017
FD 2017-02-28
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/25856
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/25856
LA eng
NO This work has been funded by the EU H2020 project “5G- Crosshaul: The 5G Integrated Fronthaul/Backhaul” (Grant no. 671598).
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