Design of Cost-Efficient Optical Fronthaul for 5G/6G Networks: An Optimization Perspective

Abdulhalim Fayad; Tibor Cinkler; Jacek Rak; Manish Jha

doi:10.3390/s22239394

Design of Cost-Efficient Optical Fronthaul for 5G/6G Networks: An Optimization Perspective

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Currently, 5G and the forthcoming 6G mobile communication systems are the most promising cellular generations expected to beat the growing hunger for bandwidth and enable the fully connected world presented by the Internet of Everything (IoE). The cloud radio access network (CRAN) has been proposed as a promising architecture for meeting the needs and goals of 5G/6G (5G and beyond) networks. Nevertheless, the provisioning of cost-efficient connections between a large number of remote radio heads (RRHs) in the cell sites and the baseband unit (BBU) pool in the central location, known as the fronthaul, has emerged as a new challenge. Many wired and wireless solutions have been proposed to address this bottleneck. Specifically, optical technologies presented by passive optical networks (PONs) are introduced as the best suitable solution for 5G and beyond network fronthaul due to their properties of providing high capacity and low latency connections. We considered time and wavelength division multiplexed passive optical networks (TWDM-PONs) as a fronthaul for 5G and beyond. Taking that into consideration, in this paper, we propose an integer linear program (ILP) that results in the optimal optical fronthaul deployment while minimizing the total cost of 5G and beyond instances. However, for larger network instances, solving the ILP problem becomes unscalable and time-consuming. To address that, we developed two heuristic-based algorithms (the K-means clustering algorithm and the one based on the genetic algorithm—GA). We evaluated the suitability of our proposed ILP and heuristic algorithms in simulations by utilizing them to plan different network instances (dense and sparse).

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Abdulhalim Fayad
- Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Tibor Cinkler prof. dr hab. inż.
Jacek Rak dr hab. inż.
Manish Jha
- Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

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Opublikowano w:

SENSORS nr 22,
ISSN: 1424-8220

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angielski

Rok wydania:

2022

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Fayad A., Cinkler T., Rak J., Jha M.: Design of Cost-Efficient Optical Fronthaul for 5G/6G Networks: An Optimization Perspective// SENSORS -Vol. 22,iss. 23 (2022), s.9394-

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