Access, Fronthaul and Backhaul Networks for 5G and Beyond

The widespread use of mobile internet and smart applications has led to an explosive growth in mobile data traffic, which will continue due to the emerging need to connect people, machines, and applications in an ubiquitous manner through the mobile infrastructure. In achieving these expectations, operators and carriers are planning to improve the user experience and the overall network performance. However, the efficient and satisfactory operation of all these densely-deployed networks hinges on a suitable backhaul and fronthaul provisioning. The research community is working against an extremely tight timeline to provide innovative technologies with extensive performance evaluation metrics along with the required standardization milestones, hardware, and components for a fully deployed network by 2020 and beyond.

Access, Fronthaul and Backhaul Networks for 5G & Beyond provides an overview from both academic and industrial stakeholders of innovative backhaul/fronthaul solutions, covering a wide spectrum of underlying themes ranging from the recent thrust in edge caching for backhaul relaxation to mmWave based fronthauling for radio access networks. With 20 chapters from leading international researchers in the field, this book is essential reading for engineers, researchers, designers, architects, technicians, students, and service providers in the field of networking and mobile, wireless, and computing technologies working towards the deployment of 5G networks.

Table of Contents

Part I: Access Network
Chapter 1 Network Densification
Chapter 2 Massive And Network Mimo
Chapter 3 The Role Of Massive Mimo In 5G Access Networks: Potentials, Challenges, And Solutions
Chapter 4 Towards A Service-Oriented Dynamic Tdd For 5G Networks
Chapter 5 Traffic Aware Scheduling For Interference Mitigation In Cognitive Femtocells
Chapter 6 5G Radio Access For The Tactile Internet
Chapter 7 Fronthauling For 5G And Beyond
Chapter 8 Interference Management And Resource Allocation In Backhaul/Access Networks

Part II: Fronthaul Networks
Chapter 9 Self-Organised Fronthauling For 5G And Beyond
Chapter 10 Nfv And Sdn For Fronthaul-Based Systems

Part III: Backhaul Network
Chapter 11 Mobile Backhaul Evolution: From Gsmto Lte-Advanced
Chapter 12 Wired Vs Wireless Backhaul
Chapter 13 Spectral Coexistence For Next Generation Wireless Backhaul Networks
Chapter 14 Control Data Separation And Its Implications On Backhaul Networks
Chapter 15 Backhaul Relaxation Through Caching

Part IV: System Integration and Case Studies
Chapter 16 Sdn And Edge Computing: Key Enablers Toward The 5G Evolution
Chapter 17 Low Latency Optical Back-And Front-Hauling For 5G
Chapter 18 Fronthaul And Backhaul Integration (Crosshaul) For 5G Mobile Transport Networks
Chapter 19 Device-To-Device Communication For 5G
Chapter 20 Coordinated Multi-Point For Future Networks: Field Trial Results