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A Gated Service MAC Protocol for 5G Fiber-Wireless Cloud-Radio Access Networks

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Next generation, i.e., fifth generation (5G), networks will leverage both fiber and wireless (FiWi) technology to meet the challenging 5G traffic demands. Moreover, a Cloud-Radio Access Network (C-RAN) architecture will be mainly adopted, which places the BaseBand Units (BBUs) at centralized locations, thus offering cost-efficient energy supply and climate control. To this end, efficient Medium Transparent-Medium Access Control (MT-MAC) protocols are needed to ensure the optimal exploitation of both media. In this paper, we propose a gated service MT-MAC protocol (gMT-MAC) for Millimeter Wave (mmWave) Analog Radio-over-Fiber (A-RoF) C-RANs. GMT-MAC grants a transmission window to each user equal to the time needed for its requested traffic to be successfully sent. A mean packet delay model is also proposed and verified by means of simulation. The performance of gMT-MAC is evaluated for different network load conditions, number of Remote Radio Heads (RRHs) and optical availability values. The provided results prove the suitability of gMT-MAC to meet the sub-ms delay requirements of latency-critical 5G services.
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hal-03200667 , version 1 (16-04-2021)

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Agapi Mesodiakaki, Pavlos Maniotis, Georgios Kalfas, Christos Vagionas, John Vardakas, et al.. A Gated Service MAC Protocol for 5G Fiber-Wireless Cloud-Radio Access Networks. 23th International IFIP Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM), May 2019, Athens, Greece. pp.425-436, ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-38085-4_36⟩. ⟨hal-03200667⟩
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