High-Resilient FlexEthernet over Elastic Optical Networks for Open RAN Backup Fronthaul Design
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Abstract
Designing a robust, resilient, and cost-efficient Fronthaul is essential to meet the ultra-reliability and high-bandwidth demands of 5G and beyond radio access networks (RANs). State-of-the-art probabilistic backup design approaches that rely on the likelihood of link failures rather than assuming worst-case scenarios to avoid over-provisioning are realistic and cost-effective. However, tackling this design problem is challenging due to its inherent stochasticity. Traditional solutions, such as robust optimization, tend to overestimate backup requirements, leading to inflated costs. In addition, existing transport technologies deployed in mobile network operators (MNOs) Fronthaul are not flexible and scalable to new 5G requirements. To address this, we propose a novel stochastic Fronthaul backup design model that leverages the combined advantages of FlexEthernet (FlexE) and elastic optical networks (EONs) to reduce bandwidth usage, backup capacity, and overall costs. By applying Chernoff bounds, we reformulate the stochastic model into a non-convex optimization problem and develop CBFH, a successive convex approximation algorithm tailored for single-MNO scenarios. For multi-MNO environments, we introduce CBFHA, an approximation algorithm based on the facility location problem. Experimental results demonstrate that our approach reduces backup costs by at least 48.92% compared to existing state-of-the-art methods.
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