Cloud Miracles: Heterogeneous Cloud RAN for Fair Coexistence of LTE-U and Wi-Fi in Ultra Dense 5G Networks

Zhenyu  Zhou; Shahid  Mumtaz; Kazi Mohammed Saidul Huq; Anwer  Al-Dulaimi; Kishor  Chandra; Jonathan Rodriguez

doi:10.1109/MCOM.2018.1700458

Cloud Miracles: Heterogeneous Cloud RAN for Fair Coexistence of LTE-U and Wi-Fi in Ultra Dense 5G Networks

Zhenyu Zhou, Shahid Mumtaz, Kazi Mohammed Saidul Huq, Anwer Al-Dulaimi, Kishor Chandra, Jonathan Rodriguez

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Abstract

Due to a tremendous increase in mobile traffic, mobile operators have started to restructure their networks to offload their traffic in the unlicensed bands. The 3GPP new technologies of LAA and LTE-U employ an unlicensed radio interface that operates over the 5 GHz unlicensed band to leverage the radio resources for operators’ transmissions. 5G relies on spectrum extension using multi-radio interfaces accessing multiple bands such as LAA and LTE-U. However, the physical and MAC layer designs for LTE-based systems have a significant impact on Wi-Fi performance to maintain a fair share of unlicensed spectrum.
Therefore, this article proposes a coexistence mechanism that manages backoff for LTE-U and Wi-Fi when accessing the 5 GHz band. The new mechanism allocates certain amounts of packets to both technologies through a new interface that resides in a heterogeneous cloud RAN.

Original language	English
Article number	56
Pages (from-to)	64-71
Journal	IEEE Communications Magazine
Volume	56
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.2018.1700458
Publication status	Published - 15 Jun 2018

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