Title :
On the Merits of Migrating From Legacy Circuit-Switched Cellular Infrastructure to a Fully Packet-Based RAN Architecture
Author :
Sherif, Sherif R. ; Ellinas, Georgios ; Hadjiantonis, Antonis ; Dorsinville, Roger ; Ali, Mohamed A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., City Univ. of New York, New York, NY
fDate :
6/15/2009 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
This paper addresses the important issue of how to optimize the performance of the current mobile backhaul Radio Access Network (RAN) infrastructure to cope with the growing and dynamic nature of the emerging data-centric mobile multimedia traffic and services. Specifically, this work proposes and devises a simple and cost-effective EPON-based dynamic multiservice RAN architecture that efficiently transports and supports a wide range of existing and emerging data-centric mobile multimedia traffic and services along with the diverse quality of service (QoS) and rate requirements set by these services. To conform to the emerging Fourth-Generation (4G) Long-Term Evolution (LTE) standards, the proposed centralized packet-based RAN architecture is further evolved to a distributed architecture. The performance of the distributed packet-based RAN architecture is then examined and compared with that of the centralized one. In general, the simulation results indicate that packet-based RAN architectures are far better suited for coping with the dynamic and bursty traffic pattern of the emerging data-centric mobile multimedia services along with the diverse QoS and rate requirements set by these services.
Keywords :
cellular radio; mobile radio; multimedia communication; quality of service; radio access networks; telecommunication network topology; telecommunication standards; telecommunication traffic; 4G long-term evolution standards; EPON-based dynamic multiservice; legacy circuit-switched cellular infrastructure; mobile multimedia services; mobile multimedia traffic; quality of service; radio access network; Optical fiber communication; passive optical networks; radio access network;
Journal_Title :
Lightwave Technology, Journal of
DOI :
10.1109/JLT.2009.2022507