Integrating Optical and Wireless Techniques towards Novel Fronthaul and Access Architectures in a 5G NR Framework

Towards 5G: A Photonic Based Millimeter Wave Signal Generation for Applying in 5G Access Fronthaul.

5G communications require a multi Gb/s data transmission in its small cells. For this purpose millimeter wave (mm-wave) RF signals are the best solutions to be utilized for high speed data transmission. Generation of these high frequency RF signals is challenging in electrical domain therefore photonic generation of these signals is more studied. In this work, a photonic based simple and robust...

Optical Techniques for Fronthaul Networks

This paper introduces various techniques for a new fronthaul network segment applied in centralized radio access networks (C-RAN) architecture. The promising fronthaul interfaces are described which are considered to meet physical requirements for the fronthaul network segment and to build a new radio access network solution. Various optical solutions including CPRI (Common Public Radio Interfa...

5G Small-Cell Networks Exploiting Optical Technologies with mmWave Massive MIMO and MT-MAC Protocols

Analog optical fronthaul for 5G network architectures is currently being promoted as a bandwidthand energy-efficient technology that can sustain the data-rate, latency and energy requirements of the emerging 5G era. This paper deals with a new optical fronthaul architecture that can effectively synergize optical transceiver, optical add/drop multiplexer and optical beamforming integrated photon...

D2.3 Architecture of Optical/Wireless Backhaul and Fronthaul and Evaluation

5G Wireless Access

5G is the next step in the evolution of mobile communication and a key component of the future networked society. It will include the evolution of LTE as well as new non-backwards-compatible technology. With capabilities such as massive system capacity, higher data rates, very low latency and ultra-high reliability, 5G will provide significantly enhanced mobile-broadband experience but also sup...