A survey of the functional splits proposed for 5G mobile crosshaul networks

LMP Larsen, A Checko… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pacing the way toward 5G has lead researchers and industry in the direction of centralized
processing known from Cloud-Radio Access Networks (C-RAN). In C-RAN research, a …

[HTML][HTML] Clock synchronization in industrial Internet of Things and potential works in precision time protocol: Review, challenges and future directions

K Balakrishnan, R Dhanalakshmi, BB Sinha… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) aims to revolutionize users' daily lives by enabling
seamless data exchange among various ubiquitous devices over the Internet. However …

Toward greener 5G and beyond radio access networks—A survey

LMP Larsen, HL Christiansen, S Ruepp… - IEEE Open journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile network traffic is increasing and so is the energy consumption. The Radio Access
Network (RAN) part is responsible for the largest share of the mobile network energy …

Advanced optical access technologies for next-generation (5G) mobile networks

J Zou, S Adrian Sasu, M Lawin, A Dochhan… - Journal of Optical …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Fixed optical transport is the predominant fronthaul technology for 4G mobile access
networks, carrying the traffic between the central office and subtended antenna sites. With …

Reconfigurable fiber wireless IFoF fronthaul with 60 GHz phased array antenna and silicon photonic ROADM for 5G mmWave C-RANs

A Tsakyridis, E Ruggeri, G Kalfas… - IEEE Journal on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate experimentally a bandwidth-reconfigurable mmWave Fiber Wireless (FiWi)
fronthaul bus topology for spectrally efficient and flexibly reconfigurable 5G Centralized …

IEEE 1588 for clock synchronization in industrial IoT and related applications: A review on contributing technologies, protocols and enhancement methodologies

Z Idrees, J Granados, Y Sun, S Latif, L Gong… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Precise time synchronization becomes a vital constituent due to the rigorous needs of
several time-sensitive applications. The clock synchronization protocol is one of the …

Game theory based opportunistic computation offloading in cloud-enabled IoV

M Liwang, J Wang, Z Gao, X Du, M Guizani - Ieee Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the growing popularity of the fifth-generation (5G) wireless systems and cloud-enabled
Internet of Vehicles, vehicular cloud has been introduced as a novel mobile device …

Transport security considerations for the open-ran fronthaul

D Dik, MS Berger - 2021 IEEE 4th 5G World Forum (5GWF), 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Open-RAN Fronthaul is constrained by strict high performance requirements. It
transports very sensitive data over Ethernet between Radio Units and Distributed Units …

Experimental demonstration of dynamic optical beamforming for beyond 5G spatially multiplexed fronthaul networks

R Muñoz, S Rommel, P van Dijk… - IEEE Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a beyond 5G fronthaul network with dynamic beamforming and-
steering. The proposed fronthaul solution deploys optical beamforming (OBF) by combining …

Opportunistic cpu sharing in mobile edge computing deploying the cloud-ran

AF Ocampo, MR Fida, JF Botero… - … on Network and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Leveraging virtualization technology, Cloud-RAN deploys multiple virtual Base Band Units
(vBBUs) along with collocated applications on the same Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) …