eCPRI Supports In 5G O-RAN Fronthaul With FlexEthernet
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Abstract
Traditional Fronthaul architectures are not efficiently provisioned for 5G due to their lack of Fronthaul slicing supports or/and inability to satisfy the very strict latency and high bandwidth requirements defined for the enhanced common public radio interface (eCPRI). In this paper, we propose a new Fronthaul architecture that leverages Flex-Ethernet (FlexE) to guarantee 5G Fronthaul quality of service (QoS) requirements without over-provisioning the Fronthaul resources. By separating the MAC and PHY layers through a time division multiplexing (TDM) shim, FlexE allows for efficient aggregation of huge traffic volume and the design of low-latency hard network slicing architectures. Unfortunately, no standard has been defined for eCPRI transmission support over FlexE. Therefore, we propose a new protocol stack in which FlexE clients are efficiently allocated to carry eCPRI data of different 5G slices. We then formulate the FlexE-based Fronthaul provisioning optimization problem as an integer linear program (ILP) model. Simulation results show the proposed solution saves 82% of CAPEX and 94% of OPEX compared to a Fronthaul baseline.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
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