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Towards Smart Fronthauling Management: Experimental Insights from a 5G Testbed
Marcello Morini, Eugenio Moro, Ilario Filippini +3
The fronthaul connection is a key component of Centralized RAN (C-RAN) architectures, consistently required to handle high capacity demands. However, this critical feature is at ri…
Shaping Radio Access to Match Variable Wireless Fronthaul Quality in Next-Generation Networks
Marcello Morini, Eugenio Moro, Ilario Filippini +2
The emergence of Centralized-RAN (C-RAN) has revolutionized mobile network infrastructure, offering streamlined cell-site engineering and enhanced network management capabilities.…
Exploring Upper-6GHz and mmWave in Real-World 5G Networks: A Direct on-Field Comparison
Marcello Morini, Eugenio Moro, Ilario Filippini +2
The spectrum crunch challenge poses a vital threat to the progress of cellular networks and recently prompted the inclusion of millimeter wave (mmWave) and Upper 6GHz (U6G) in the…
ScalO-RAN: Energy-aware Network Intelligence Scaling in Open RAN
Stefano Maxenti, Salvatore D'Oro, Leonardo Bonati +3
Network virtualization, software-defined infrastructure, and orchestration are pivotal elements in contemporary networks, yielding new vectors for optimization and novel capabiliti…