Mobility support in optical slot switching-based next-generation mobile backhaul networks

Nihel Benzaoui (1, 2, 3) , Yvan Pointurier (2) , Thomas Bonald (1, 3) , Bogdan Uscumlic (4) , Qing Wei (5) , Sébastien Bigo (2)

1 LINCS - Laboratory of Information, Network and Communication Sciences
2 Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs France [Nozay]
3 LTCI - Laboratoire Traitement et Communication de l'Information
4 Bell Labs (Alcatel Lucent)
5 DOCOMO Euro-Labs

We propose a new CoS-aware mechanism to support User-Element mobility at optical layer in optical slot switching-based next-generation mobile backhaul network. This new mechanism allows supporting 30% additional network load and up to halves latency compared with naive mechanism. Introduction With the evolution of the optical transport technologies, energy-efficient solutions for the transport in the radio access part of cellular backhaul networks have become available. In this paper, we consider the use of a fine granularity optical transport solution: optical slot switching (OSS), an energy-efficient

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]; Performance et fiabilité [cs.PF]

Nihel Benzaoui, Yvan Pointurier, Thomas Bonald, Bogdan Uscumlic, Qing Wei, et al.. Mobility support in optical slot switching-based next-generation mobile backhaul networks. ECOC, 2015, Valencia, Spain. ⟨hal-01244327⟩