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As progressive densification of cells, deployment of Cloud-RAN and \ac{MEC} are coming into reality to support the ultra-low latency with high reliability in 5G and beyond, it generates mesh traffic pattern across fronthaul network. This…
The commercialization of Cloud-RAN, and Open-RAN in particular, is a key factor to enable 5G cell densification, by providing lower cost and more agile deployment of small cells. In addition, the adoption of MEC is important to support…
Cloud-Radio Access Networks (Cloud-RANs) are separating the mobile networks base station functions into three units, the connection between the two of them is referred to as the fronthaul network. This work demonstrates the transmission of…
Ultra-low end-to-end latency is one of the most important requirements in 5G networks and beyond to support latency-critical applications. Cloud-RAN and MEC are considered as the key driving technology that can help reduce end-to-end…
Passive optical network (PON) technology offers an attractive cost-efficient alternative to support 5G and Beyond 5G mobile network fronthauling (MFH). However, MFH for such networks is challenging given its high bandwidth and strict…
In this paper, an energy efficient passive optical network (PON) architecture is proposed for backhaul connectivity in indoor visible light communication (VLC) systems. The proposed network is used to support a fog computing architecture…
In this paper, we consider the use of visible light communication (VLC) to provide connectivity to indoor fog computing resources and propose an energy-efficient passive optical network (PON)-based backhaul architecture to support the VLC…
The fifth-generation of mobile radio technologies is expected to be agile, flexible, and scalable while provisioning ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (uRLLC), enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), and massive machine type…
The emerging Cloud-RAN architecture within the fifth generation (5G) of wireless networks plays a vital role in enabling higher flexibility and granularity. On the other hand, Cloud-RAN architecture introduces an additional link between the…
With the emergence of Cloud-RAN as one of the dominant architectural solutions for next-generation mobile networks, the reliability and latency on the fronthaul (FH) segment become critical performance metrics for applications such as the…
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…
This paper proposes a point-to-point passive optical network (P2P-PON) architecture as an energy-efficient and low-latency backhaul solution for visible light communication (VLC)-enabled indoor fog computing systems. The proposed…
Virtual reality (VR) over wireless is emerging as an important use case of 5G networks. Immersive VR experience requires the delivery of huge data at ultra-low latency, thus demanding ultra-high transmission rate. This challenge can be…
Cell-free massive MIMO systems have promising data rate and uniform coverage gains. These systems, however, typically rely on optical fiber based fronthaul for the communication between the central processing unit (CPU) and the distributed…
Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is commonly recognized as a key supporting technology for the emerging 5G systems. When deployed in fully virtualized networks, i.e., following the Network Function Virtualization (NFV) paradigm, it will…
Passive optical networks (PON) technology is increasingly becoming an attractive solution in modern data centres as it provides energy efficient, high capacity, low cost, scalable and flexible connectivity. In this paper we report the…
Mobile cloud and edge computing protocols make it possible to offer computationally heavy applications to mobile devices via computational offloading from devices to nearby edge servers or more powerful, but remote, cloud servers. Previous…
In this paper, we propose an energy efficient passive optical network (PON) architecture for backhaul connectivity in indoor visible light communication (VLC) systems. The proposed network is used to support a fog computing architecture…
Fog radio access network (F-RAN) and virtualisation are promising technologies for 5G networks. In F-RAN, the fog and cloud computing are integrated where the conventional C-RAN functions are diverged to the edge devices of radio access…
Mobile edge clouds (MECs) bring the benefits of the cloud closer to the user, by installing small cloud infrastructures at the network edge. This enables a new breed of real-time applications, such as instantaneous object recognition and…