WORKSHOP 4b

Towards Converged X-Haul for 5G Networks – A joint workshop of the iCirrus, 5G-XHaul and 5G-Crosshaul projects

  • Monday, 27 June 2016, 14:00-17:30, Room Kleoniki A

  • Organiser:

    • Jörg-Peter Elbers (ADVA Optical Networking, Germany)
    • Eckhard Grass (IHP Microelectronics)
    • Alain Mourad (Interdigital)

 

Motivation and Background

Increasing demands on data rate and latency drive the search for new architectures in the mobile front- and back-haul space. The workshop will review architectural requirements, discuss challenges of current approaches and present converged x-haul solutions for 5G. Topics such as next-generation Cloud-RAN, modified functional splits between BBUs and RRHs, means to reduce data rate and timing accuracy in mobile front-haul, as well as novel data plane and control plane approaches for converged front- and backhaul will be discussed. The workshop will bring speakers from the three Horizon2020 projects iCirrus, 5G-XHaul and 5G-Crosshaul together, with the objective of building consensus and exploring possibilities for future collaboration. An active participation from the audience is solicited.

 

Session I: 14.00-15.30h (6 slots with 12mins presentations + 3mins Q&A)

  1. Konstantinos Filis, Cosmote: Trends in mobile networks

  2. Zakaria Tayq, Orange: Fronthaul field trials and future trends

  3. Chih-Lin I, China Mobile: No more “cells”

  4. Thomas Deiss, Nokia: Fronthaul requirements of 5G mobile networks

  5. Chenguang Lu, Ericsson: Bit-Rate Bound Derivation for compressed time-domain fronthaul

  6. Daniel Münch, ADVA Optical Networking: Converged Ethernet for next-gen x-haul

Session II: 16.00h-17.30h (3 slots with 12mins presentations + 3mins Q&A, followed by a panel discussion)

  1. John Govert, Viavi Solutions: Test & assurance implications for different front-haul network architectures and split options

  2. Anna Tzanakaki, Bristol University: Optical transport for 5G in Bristol is Open

  3. Arturo Azcorra, IMDEA: Control Plane Approaches for 5G Crosshaul in the 5TONIC Testbed

               Panel Discussion with previous speakers (45 mins)

 

Presentations available!