Design and Integration of Fiber Fronthaul with Soft PHY for OAI-BASED RAN

Wei Hsin Huang, Terng-Yin Hsu

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Abstract

For high-speed communications need, Fronthaul, a new mobile architecture related to RAN-based networks, has been widely used in 4G/5G mobile network. Compared with the traditional architecture of the baseband station, Fronthaul is divided into baseband unit (BBU) and remote radio head (RRH). Due to the separation, the interface between BBU and RRH requires more effort to handle the data rate transmission. In this paper, we propose the fiber Fronthaul to achieve the high bandwidth requirement. The BBU includes the SoftPHY OAI running on Intel I7-6700 CPU and the data collector implemented by Xilinx VC707. The RRH is implemented by Xilinx ZC706. And the RF front-end is implemented by Analog Devices ADFMCOMMS5-EBZ. The interface between the SoftPHY OAI and the data collector is PCIe, and the interface between the data collector and the RRH is optical fiber. It is important that we design the synchronization scheme to synchronize and calibrate the real-time clock (RTC) of different RRH. Therefore, the proposed fiber Fronthaul with SoftPHY OAI can achieve the long distance, stability and high speed transmission.

Original languageAmerican English
Title of host publication2018 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, DSP 2018
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781538668115
DOIs
StatePublished - 2 Jul 2018
Event23rd IEEE International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, DSP 2018 - Shanghai, China
Duration: 19 Nov 201821 Nov 2018

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Digital Signal Processing, DSP
Volume2018-November

Conference

Conference23rd IEEE International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, DSP 2018
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShanghai
Period19/11/1821/11/18

Keywords

  • BBU
  • Fiber Fronthaul
  • RRH
  • SoftPHY OAI

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