MCS 2015, 6th International Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing and Services, in conjunction with MOBICOM 2015, 11 september 2015, Paris, France
Commoditization and virtualization of wireless networks are changing the economics of mobile networks to help network providers (e.g., MNO, MVNO) move from proprietary and bespoke hardware and software platforms toward an open, cost-effective, and flexible cellular ecosystem. Cloud radio access network is a novel architecture that perform the required base band and protocol processing on a centralized computing resources or a cloud infrastructure. This replaces traditional base stations with distributed (passive) radio elements with much smaller footprints than the traditional base station and a remote pool of base band units allowing for simpler network densification. This paper investigates three critical issues for the cloudification of the current LTE/LTE-A radio access network. Extensive experimentations have been performed based on the OpenAirInterface simulators to characterise the base band processing time under different
conditions. Based on the results, an accurate model is proposed to compute the total uplink and downlink processing load as a function of bandwidth, modulation and coding scheme, and virtualization platforms. The results also reveal the feasible virtualization
approach towards a cloud-native radio access network.
Type:
Conference
City:
Paris
Date:
2015-09-11
Department:
Communication systems
Eurecom Ref:
4640
Copyright:
© ACM, 2015. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in MCS 2015, 6th International Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing and Services, in conjunction with MOBICOM 2015, 11 september 2015, Paris, France http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2802130.2802136
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