Comparison of Analogue and Digital Fronthaul for 5G MIMO Signals

Philip Perry; Colm Browning; Amol Delmade; Adaranijo Peters; Bryan Scotney; Sally I McClean; PJ Morrow; Liam P. Barry

doi:doi: 10.1109/ICC40277.2020.9148787

Comparison of Analogue and Digital Fronthaul for 5G MIMO Signals

Philip Perry, Colm Browning, Amol Delmade, Adaranijo Peters, Bryan Scotney, Sally I McClean, PJ Morrow, Liam P. Barry

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This paper investigates architectural and capacity issues associated with analogue and digital radio over fibre fronthaul for MIMO in 5G cellular systems. The capacity of both systems is evaluated in terms of a static system deployment and also with varying traffic load. The results show that in a leased line scenario, the analogue systems offer an opportunity to reduce the cost of fibre infrastructure by more than 93% due to the more efficient use of bandwidth. but since the ARoF equipment is currently more expensive than the DRoF equivalent, there is a trade-off between CAPEX and OPEX for a given deployment.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2020 - Proceedings
Place of Publication	Dublin, Ireland
Publisher	IEEE Xplore
Pages	1-6
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-7281-5089-5
ISBN (Print)	978-1-7281-5090-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/doi: 10.1109/ICC40277.2020.9148787
Publication status	Published (in print/issue) - 27 Jan 2020
Event	IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) - Duration: 19 May 2016 → …

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Name	IEEE International Conference on Communications
Volume	2020-June
ISSN (Print)	1550-3607

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Conference	IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
Period	19/05/16 → …

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5G
Fronthaul
eCPRI
WDM
MIMO
Radio over Fibre

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Perry, P., Browning, C., Delmade, A., Peters, A., Scotney, B., McClean, S. I., Morrow, PJ., & Barry, L. P. (2020). Comparison of Analogue and Digital Fronthaul for 5G MIMO Signals. In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2020 - Proceedings (pp. 1-6). Article 9148787 (IEEE International Conference on Communications; Vol. 2020-June). IEEE Xplore. https://doi.org/doi: 10.1109/ICC40277.2020.9148787

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