Antenna, Spectrum and Capacity trade-off for Cloud-RAN Massive Distributed MIMO over Next Generation PONs

TL;DR

This paper proposes a cost-effective resource allocation strategy for 5G MD-MIMO over Next-Generation PONs, comparing different wavelength approaches and demonstrating that split-PHY enhances mobile capacity over fronthaul.

Contribution

It introduces a novel antenna and spectrum allocation strategy optimized for cost and capacity in 5G MD-MIMO over PONs, highlighting the benefits of split-PHY.

Findings

Split-PHY yields higher mobile capacity than fronthaul.

Wavelength overlay and shared approaches are compared for cost and performance.

The proposed strategy optimizes antenna and spectrum resources for 5G networks.

Abstract

We propose a cost-optimal antenna vs. spectrum resource allocation strategy for mobile 5G MD-MIMO over Next-Generation PONs. Comparing wavelength overlay and shared wavelength approaches, split-PHY leads to solutions with higher mobile capacity than fronthaul.