A simple and cost-effective EPON-based 4G mobile backhaul RAN architecture

Author

Zaidi, S.R. ; Hussain, Shiraz ; Hossain, Abrar ; Ellinas, G. ; Dorsinville, Roger ; Ali, M.A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., City Coll. of the City Univ. of New York, New York, NY, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

3-7 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

2647

Lastpage

2652

Abstract

This paper proposes and devises a novel, simple, and cost effective PON-based 4G mobile backhaul RAN architecture that enables redistributing some of the intelligence currently centralized in the Mobile Packet Core (MPC) platform out into the access nodes of the RAN. Specifically, this work proposes and devises a fully distributed ring-based EPON architecture that enables the support of a converged PON-4G mobile WiMAX/LTE access networking transport infrastructure to seamlessly backhaul both mobile and wireline multimedia traffic and services.

Keywords

4G mobile communication; Long Term Evolution; WiMax; mobile computing; multimedia communication; optical fibre LAN; passive optical networks; radio access networks; Ethernet passive optical network; Long-Term Evolution; MPC platform; converged PON-4G mobile WiMax-LTE access networking transport infrastructure; cost-effective EPON-Based 4G mobile backhaul RAN architecture; distributed ring-based EPON architecture; mobile multimedia traffic; mobile packet core platform; radio access network; wireline multimedia traffic; 4G; 802.16; EPON; TDM PON; WiMAX;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA

ISSN

1930-529X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0920-2

Electronic_ISBN

1930-529X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2012.6503516

Filename

6503516