Toward an efficient C-RAN optical fronthaul for the future networks: A tutorial on technologies, requirements, challenges, and solutions

IA Alimi, AL Teixeira, PP Monteiro - … Communications Surveys & …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The exponential traffic growth, demand for high speed wireless data communications, as
well as incessant deployment of innovative wireless technologies, services, and …

Comprehensive survey on T-SDN: Software-defined networking for transport networks

R Alvizu, G Maier, N Kukreja… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Paradoxically, with an ever-increasing traffic demand, today transport-network operators
experience a progressive erosion of their margins. The alarms of change are set, and …

Integrated SDN/NFV management and orchestration architecture for dynamic deployment of virtual SDN control instances for virtual tenant networks

R Muñoz, R Vilalta, R Casellas, R Martinez… - Journal of Optical …, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) have emerged
as the most promising candidates for improving network function and protocol …

Data plane and control architectures for 5G transport networks

P Öhlén, B Skubic, A Rostami, M Fiorani… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Next generation 5G mobile system will support the vision of connecting all devices that
benefit from a connection, and support a wide range of services. Consequently, 5G transport …

Compensation is not enough [fault-handling and compensation mechanism]

P Greenfield, A Fekete, J Jang… - Seventh IEEE …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An important problem in designing infrastructure to support business-to-business integration
(B2Bi) is how to cancel a long-running interaction (either because the user has changed …

Integrated SDN/NFV orchestration for the dynamic deployment of mobile virtual backhaul networks over a multilayer (packet/optical) aggregation infrastructure

R Martínez, A Mayoral, R Vilalta, R Casellas… - Journal of Optical …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Future 5G networks will bring important challenges to network operators, such as the traffic
load increase mainly due to the proliferation of mobile broadband communications. This will …

Transport abstraction models for an SDN-controlled centralized RAN

M Fiorani, A Rostami, L Wosinska… - IEEE Communications …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In a centralized radio access network (C-RAN) scenario the joint coordination of radio (eg,
remote radio units, baseband units) and transport (eg, optical cross connects) resources can …

SDN/NFV orchestration for dynamic deployment of virtual SDN controllers as VNF for multi-tenant optical networks

R Munoz, R Vilalta, R Casellas, R Martínez… - Optical Fiber …, 2015 - opg.optica.org
SDN/NFV orchestration for dynamic deployment of virtual SDN controllers as VNF for multi-tenant
optical networks Page 1 W4J.5.pdf OFC 2015 © OSA 2015 SDN/NFV orchestration for …

A survey on multi-layer IP and optical Software-Defined Networks

M Kantor, E Biernacka, P Boryło, J Domżał… - Computer Networks, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract As Software-Defined Networks become more and more popular, they start to
appear in various architectures. The most common utilization of SDN is to control the …

Abstraction models for optical 5G transport networks

M Fiorani, A Rostami, L Wosinska… - Journal of Optical …, 2016 - opg.optica.org
The orchestration of radio, transport, and cloud resources is a key enabler for efficient
service delivery in 5G networks. Orchestration can be achieved with a hierarchical software …