Optical Front/Mid-haul with Open Access-Edge Server Deployment Framework for Sliced O-RAN

10/18/2021
by   Sourav Mondal, et al.
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The fifth-generation of mobile radio technologies is expected to be agile, flexible, and scalable while provisioning ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (uRLLC), enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), and massive machine type communication (mMTC) applications. These are implemented by adopting cloudification, network function virtualization, and network slicing techniques in open-radio access network (O-RAN) architecture where remote radio heads (RRHs) are connected to dis-aggregated virtual base-band units (BBUs), i.e., radio unit (RU), distributed unit (DU), and centralized unit (CU) over front/mid-haul interfaces. However, cost-efficient solutions are required for designing front/mid-haul interfaces and time-wavelength division multiplexed (TWDM) passive optical network (PON) appears as a potential candidate. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a framework for the optimal placement of RUs based on long-term network statistics and connecting them to open access-edge servers for hosting the corresponding DUs and CUs over front/mid-haul interfaces while satisfying the diverse QoS requirements of uRLLC, eMBB, and mMTC slices. In turn, we formulate a two-stage integer programming problem and time-efficient heuristics for users to RU association and flexible deployment of the corresponding DUs and CUs. We evaluate the O-RAN deployment cost and latency requirements with our TWDM-PON-based framework against urban, rural, and industrial areas and show its efficiency over the optical transport network (OTN)-based framework.

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