Real-life C-RAN deployment considerations

Line Maria Pyndt Hansen; Sarah Renée Ruepp; Henrik Lehrmann Christiansen

doi:10.1109/NOF.2017.8251239

Real-life C-RAN deployment considerations

Line Maria Pyndt Hansen, Sarah Renée Ruepp, Henrik Lehrmann Christiansen

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Abstract

Cloud-Radio Access Network (C-RAN) is seen as a promising mobile network architecture for both current and future Radio Access Technologies (RATs). However, commercial C-RAN deployments are not yet commonly seen and thus experience from operational networks is limited. This means that standard procedures and best practices for roll out are yet to be established. This work provides a case study, where a small but densely populated part of the network owned by the Danish mobile network operator, TDC, is evaluated for C-RAN deployment. A roadmap is provided which uses traffic data as input and the output is a sequence of when the specific cells should have C-RAN deployed. Any operator to create their own roadmap towards C-RAN deployment can use the methods derived for the roadmap in this work.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Network of the Future (NOF)
Number of pages	3
Publisher	IEEE
Publication date	2017
Pages	147-149
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/NOF.2017.8251239
Publication status	Published - 2017
Event	8th International Conference on the Network of the Future - Strand campus of the King's College, London , United Kingdom Duration: 22 Nov 2017 → 24 Nov 2017 Conference number: 8th https://nof17.lip6.fr/index.php

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Conference	8th International Conference on the Network of the Future
Number	8th
Location	Strand campus of the King's College
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	London
Period	22/11/2017 → 24/11/2017
Internet address	https://nof17.lip6.fr/index.php

Keywords

C-RAN
Deployment
Inter-cell cooperation
Network operator
Shared processing

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