Reliable and resilient coordinated multi point fronthaul networks

Sulieman N. I., Balevi E., Gitlin R. D.

19th IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference, WAMICON 2018, Florida, United States Of America, 9 - 10 April 2018, pp.1-4, (Full Text) identifier

  • Publication Type: Conference Paper / Full Text
  • Doi Number: 10.1109/wamicon.2018.8363916
  • City: Florida
  • Country: United States Of America
  • Page Numbers: pp.1-4
  • Keywords: 5G, CoMP, Diversity Coding, fronthaul, Network Coding, reliability, throughput
  • Middle East Technical University Affiliated: No

Abstract

© 2018 IEEE.Very fast link failure recovery and high throughput can be achieved via the synergistic combination of Diversity and Network Coding (DC-NC), an open-loop coding technique, in a wide variety of network architectures. In this paper, DC-NC is applied to enable recovering from a wireless link/node failure in the fronthaul portion of downlink Coordinated Multi Point (CoMP) 5G wireless network in a C-RAN environment. Our results demonstrate that by utilizing DC-NC coding in CoMP systems, resource consumption is reduced by about one-third and ultra-reliability with near-instantaneous fault recovery is achieved.