%0 Conference Proceedings
%T A Gated Service MAC Protocol for 5G Fiber-Wireless Cloud-Radio Access Networks
%+ Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
%+ Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics [Patras]
%+ Iquadrat Informatica S.L.
%+ Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya = Telecommunications Technological Centre of Catalonia (CTTC)
%A Mesodiakaki, Agapi
%A Maniotis, Pavlos
%A Kalfas, Georgios
%A Vagionas, Christos
%A Vardakas, John
%A Kartsakli, Elli
%A Antonopoulos, Angelos
%A Datsika, Eftychia
%A Verikoukis, Christos
%A Pleros, Nikos
%Z Part 1: Regular Papers
%< avec comité de lecture
%( Lecture Notes in Computer Science
%B 23th International IFIP Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM)
%C Athens, Greece
%Y Anna Tzanakaki
%Y Manos Varvarigos
%Y Raul Muñoz
%Y Reza Nejabati
%Y Noboru Yoshikane
%Y Markos Anastasopoulos
%Y Johann Marquez-Barja
%I Springer International Publishing
%3 Optical Network Design and Modeling
%V LNCS-11616
%P 425-436
%8 2019-05-13
%D 2019
%R 10.1007/978-3-030-38085-4_36
%K Fifth Generation (5G) networks
%K Mean packet delay model
%K Fiber-Wireless (FiWi)
%K Millimeter Wave (mmWave)
%K Cloud-radio access networks (C-RANS)
%K Analog Radio-over-Fiber (A-ROF)
%K Medium Transparent-MAC (MT-MAC)
%Z Computer Science [cs]
%Z Computer Science [cs]/Networking and Internet Architecture [cs.NI]Conference papers
%X 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.
%G English
%Z TC 6
%Z WG 6.10
%2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-03200667/document
%2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-03200667/file/484327_1_En_36_Chapter.pdf
%L hal-03200667
%U https://inria.hal.science/hal-03200667
%~ IFIP-LNCS
%~ IFIP
%~ IFIP-TC
%~ IFIP-WG
%~ IFIP-TC6
%~ IFIP-LNCS-11616
%~ IFIP-ONDM
%~ IFIP-WG6-10