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Performance Evaluations of Cloud Radio Access Networks

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With the skyrocketing amount of data communications, traditional Radio Access Networks (RANs) infrastructure suffers from high capital and operating expenditures. Many countries and mobile network operators, therefore, propose software-defined radio access networks for centralized management, and further apply cloud computing technologies into cellular networks. Cloud Radio Access Network (Cloud-RAN) is a new paradigm for the next generation mobile network which provides ultra-high density deployments, dynamic reconfiguration of computing resources, as well as achieves high energy efficiency. To quantify the performance of Cloud-RAN infrastructure deployment, we build up real Software RAN testbeds based on an opensource LTE implementation over the latest virtualization technologies. We evaluate the performance of different testbed deployments by several test scenarios, in order to show the overhead introduced by virtualization. In addition, our testbed setup and measurement methodology will stimulate more systems research on the emerging Cloud-RAN infrastructure.

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This study was conducted under the Advanced Communication Technology Research and Laboratory Development project of the Institute for Information Industry, which is subsidized by the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Republic of China. This work was also partially supported by Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) of Taiwan under grant number MOST104-3115-E-007-004.

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    Mu-Han Huang, Yu-Cing Luo, Chen-Nien Mao, Bing-Liang Chen, Shih-Chun Huang, Jerry Chou, Shun-Ren Yang, Yeh-Ching Chung & Cheng-Hsin Hsu

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Huang, MH. et al. (2017). Performance Evaluations of Cloud Radio Access Networks. In: Lee, JH., Pack, S. (eds) Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness in Heterogeneous Networks. QShine 2016. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 199. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60717-7_31

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