June 27 @ 9:00 – 12:00 Workshop

5G-Crosshaul is organising a Workshop on “Next Generation fronthaul/backhaul integrated transport networks” on 27 June at EuCNC (detailed programme here).

Talks

-“Fronthaul requirements of 5G mobile networks”, by Thomas Deiss (Nokia), at the workshop “Towards Converged X-Haul for 5G Networks”
-“Bit-Rate Bound Derivation for compressed time-domain fronthaul”, by Chenguan Lu (Ericsson), at the workshop “Towards Converged X-Haul for 5G Networks”
-“Ethernet OAM and SDN: a matching opportunity”, by Luca Cominardi (InterDigital), at the workshop “Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Programmable Software Networks”

Papers

-“Fronthaul Performance Demonstration in a WDM-PON-Based Convergent Network”, by Z. Tayq (Orange)
-“Packet Forwarding for Heterogeneous Technologies for Integrated Fronthaul/Backhaul”, by T. Deiss (Nokia)
-“Orchestration of Crosshaul Slices from Federated Administrative Domains”, by LM. Contreras (Telefonica)
-“5G-Crosshaul: Towards a Unified Data-Plane for 5G Transport Networks, by L. Cominardi (InterDigital)
-“Innovations Through 5G-Crosshaul Applications”, by X. Li (NEC)

Demonstrations

– Fronthaul Compression, by EAB
– RRU/BBU functional split with an Ethernet-based fronthaul, by CND
– Optical Wireless Link: Low-cost short-range optical backhaul, by HHI
– Video demonstration of High Speed Train Testbed in Taiwan, by ITRI