Open AccessData Plane and Control Architectures for 5G Transport Networks
Author(s) -
Peter Ohlen,
Bjorn Skubic,
Ahmad Rostami,
Matteo Fiorani,
Paolo Monti,
Zere Ghebretensae,
Jonas Martensson,
Kun Wang,
Lena Wosinska
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of lightwave technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.346
H-Index - 200
eISSN - 1558-2213
pISSN - 0733-8724
DOI - 10.1109/jlt.2016.2524209
Subject(s) - communication, networking and broadcast technologies , photonics and electrooptics
Next generation 5G mobile system will support the vision of connecting all devices that benefit from a connection, and support a wide range of services. Consequently, 5G transport networks need to provide the required capacity, latency, and flexibility in order to integrate the different technology domains of radio, transport, and cloud. This paper outlines the main challenges, which the 5G transport networks are facing and discusses in more detail data plane, control architectures, and the tradeoff between different network abstraction models.