This book provides an overview from both academic and industrial stakeholders of innovative backhaul/fronthaul solutions, covering a wide spectrum of underlying themes ranging from the recent thrust in edge caching for backhaul relaxation to mmWave based fronthauling for radio access networks.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Part I: Access Network
- Chapter 1: Network densification
- Chapter 2: Massive and network MIMO
- Chapter 3: The role of massive MIMO in 5G access networks: potentials, challenges, and solutions
- Chapter 4: Towards a service-oriented dynamic TDD for 5G networks
- Chapter 5: Traffic aware scheduling for interference mitigation in cognitive femtocells
- Chapter 6: 5G radio access for the Tactile Internet
- Chapter 7: Fronthauling for 5G and beyond
- Chapter 8: Interference management and resource allocation in backhaul/access networks
- Part II: Fronthaul Networks
- Chapter 9: Self-organised fronthauling for 5G and beyond
- Chapter 10: NFV and SDN for fronthaul-based systems
- Part III: Backhaul Network
- Chapter 11: Mobile backhaul evolution: from GSM to LTE-Advanced
- Chapter 12: Wired vs wireless backhaul
- Chapter 13: Spectral coexistence for next generation wireless backhaul networks
- Chapter 14: Control data separation and its implications on backhaul networks
- Chapter 15: Backhaul relaxation through caching
- Part IV: System Integration and Case Studies
- Chapter 16: SDN and edge computing: key enablers toward the 5G evolution
- Chapter 17: Low latency optical back- and front-hauling for 5G
- Chapter 18: Fronthaul and backhaul integration (Crosshaul) for 5G mobile transport networks
- Chapter 19: Device-to-device communication for 5G
- Chapter 20: Coordinated multi-point for future networks: field trial results
