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For dense small cell deployment in centralized baseband architecture, wireless fronthaul is a cost efficient and flexible alternative to fiber-based fronthaul links. Due to the available wide bandwidth, millimeter-wave technology is the most promising choice to realize multi-gigabit wireless transmission of the common public radio interface (CPRI). In this paper, we present a novel differential encoding...
The deluge of date rate in today's networks poses a cost burden on the backhaul network design. Developing cost efficient backhaul solutions becomes an interesting, yet challenging, problem. Traditional technologies for backhaul networks include either radio-frequency backhauls (RF) or optical fibres (OF). While RF is a cost-effective solution as compared to OF, it supports lower data rate requirements...
Millimeter wave (mmW) bands between 30 and 300 GHz have attracted considerable attention for nextgeneration cellular networks due to vast quantities of available spectrum and the possibility of very high-dimensional antenna arrays. However, a key issue in these systems is range: mmW signals are extremely vulnerable to shadowing and poor high-frequency propagation. Multi-hop relaying is therefore a...
This paper investigates an impact of twists and sways of mounting structures on the performance of point-topoint millimeter-wave backhaul links. Characteristics of twists and sways are studied by experimental measurements performed on different telecom infrastructure sites and municipal sites considered for small cells installations. The measurements are done in four cities in Russia and Finland in...
We consider the admission control of small cell access points (SAPs) supported by wireless backhaul in a heterogeneous network. The SAP admission control in wireless backhaul is performed at the wireless backhaul hub (WBH), which aims to serve as many SAPs as possible with the guaranteed data rates. Such a problem involves joint design of transmit beamformers, power control, and selection of SAPs,...
The expected higher complexity of upcoming 5G wireless backhauls suggests the need to evolve towards a softwaredefined networking (SDN) paradigm to increase the degree of programmability of these networks. Within the context of softwaredefined wireless backhaul, one important issue is the provision of an even resource consumption of both network and IT resources. Backpressure policies have shown their...
Cell sizes of the Fifth Generation (5G) of mobile networks grow inexorably smaller because of the massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) and millimeter wave communication technologies to be used. It is therefore challenging to address the mobility management, especially vertical handover in 5G networks. In this paper, an intelligent vertical handover framework is proposed and discussed to simplify...
Recent advancements in the self-interference (SI) cancellation capability of low-power wireless devices pave the way of implementing full-duplex (FD) self-backhauling in smallcell networks. FD self-backhauling allows exploiting the radio spectrum used by the radio access network (RAN) for backhaul links as well as access links concurrently. This paper characterizes the performance of FD self-backhauling...
The use of centralized signal processing for dense urban mobile networks is gaining interest both in research and in industry. Gathering most of the base station functionalities in a processing pool would enable capacity sharing and the implementation of advanced techniques such as coordinated multi-point. Nevertheless, this puts stringent requirements on the network interconnecting the processing...
Since traffic load in mobile networks typically changes significantly over time, time-varying routing, where routing changes in certain time intervals, seems an obvious solution. Yet multiple researchers have claimed independently in the past, that time-varying routing does not lead to worthwhile benefits given its overhead. In this paper, we study this issue in a systematic way. We argue that previous...
Transport of mobile fronthaul traffic has a tight latency requirement of about 250us one-way. The best solutions today are based on expensive point-to-point (PtP) fiber links and PtP wavelength division multiplexing. A time division multiplexed passive optical network (TDM-PON) is less expensive, but has a poor latency of about 1ms. Guidelines are suggested to design an optimized TDM-PON with minimal...
While small cells (SCs) are an important feature of emerging network architectures, providing backhaul to SCs is a challenging problem. Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) wireless backhaul networks provide a cost effective approach in urban areas where providing a wired- or fiber-based backhaul is difficult. An important problem in designing such networks is to optimize the position of backhaul hubs in a way...
Heterogeneous networks are considered a promising solution to address the explosive increase in wireless networks capacity demand. Due to their limited coverage, small cells offer better area spectral efficiency than macro-cells, and advanced features, such as cell range extension, aim at biasing the choice of users towards small cells. Whereas these features are designed to maximise the air interface...
In this article, we introduce a new metric called ‘information centric coverage probability’ to characterize the performance of a two-tier cache enabled cellular network. The proposed metric unifies the dynamics of in-network caching and heterogeneous networking to provide a unified performance measure. Specifically, it quantifies the probability that a mobile user (MU) is covered at a desired rate...
In this work, we develop an analytical paradigm to analyze the average symbol error probability (ASEP) performance of uplink traffic in a multi-tier cellular network. The analysis is based on the recently developed Equivalent-in-Distribution approach that utilizes stochastic geometric tools to account for the network geometry in the performance characterization. Different from the other stochastic...
This paper considers the problem of coordinated multi-point transmission from transmitter devices that acquire noisy and partial channel state information (CSI) estimates from local feedback links. As cooperative multi-antenna transmission often relies on the availability of global channel estimates, we propose a novel decentralized algorithm that produces MMSEoptimal channel estimates on the basis...
To achieve higher spectral efficiency in future wireless networks, small cells have been conceived to be deployed over conventional macrocell networks, generating heterogeneous networks (HetNets). However, interference between different tiers of HetNets is the main bottleneck for high spectral efficiency. Spectrum access, including spectrum deployment and channel access, is one of the most powerful...
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