2017 Volume 6 Issue 6 Pages 417-422
We propose use of the Functional Application Platform Interface mapped over Radio over Ethernet frames to develop a transport interface for the mobile fronthaul, i.e., the link between the baseband unit and remote radio heads for next generation cellular systems. We confirmed by numerical simulation that the statistical multiplexing effect was limited if the correlation between the streams was considered in the wireless system with the bandwidth of 600 Mb/s for 16 streams per access point. However we also confirmed that the required fronthaul capacity was suppressed to a few tens of Gb/s because the statistical multiplexing effect was still effective. Therefore, the fronthaul can be configured by a few links of cost-effective 10 Gb/s Ethernet.
