An analysis of next-generation infrastructure for mobile back- and fronthaul is presented. The same infrastructure can be used for wireline backhaul and dedicated business access. Possible coexistence with FTTH residential access based on NG-PON2 TWDM is also analyzed. Further, different locations for pools of base-band units in fronthaul scenarios are compared with regard to resulting cost. It turns out that fronthaul with highly concentrated base-band unit pools can be cost-efficient even if fronthaul bit rates reach 10 Gb/s.
@article{arxiv.1802.00402,
title = {Analysis of WDM-PON for Next-Generation Back- and Fronthaul},
author = {Klaus Grobe and Joerg-Peter Elbers},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.00402},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
The work leading to these results has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Program (FP7) under Grant Agreement No. 317762 (COMBO), and from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program under Grant Agreement No. 644526 (iCirrus)