Implementation of a Large-Scale Virtual-RAN Providing an mMTC Service

• Published in: International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (Online) pp. 1028 - 1033
• Main Authors: Kassi, Mihia, Hamouda, Soumaya
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 19.06.2023
• Subjects: 5G mobile communication; BBU Pool; Docker Swarm technology; fronthaul; Internet of Things; large-scale virtual BBU Pool; OpenAirInterface platform; Optimization; Performance evaluation; Protocols; RAN virtualization; RRH; Simulation; Software Defined Radio (SDR); V-RAN; vBBU; Wireless communication

Virtualize the Radio Access Networks (RAN) is one of the main objectives for 5G Networks and beyond. To make this objective real, a lot of theory and conceptual solutions are proposed. However, the practical realization still blocked, limited to an extremely low number of virtualized entities (BBU,...