INTRODUCING THE 5G-PPP 5G-XHAUL PROJECT

Anna Tzanakaki (University of Bristol, NKUA)

Bristol 5G city testbed with 5G-XHaul extensions

www.5g-xhaul-project.eu
1. CONSORTIUM OVERVIEW

• IHP GmbH (Coordinator) • Huawei Technologies

• ADVA Optical Networking • TU Dresden

• Airrays GmbH • Telefónica I+D

• Blu Wireless Technology • TES Electronic

Solutions
• COSMOTE
• University of Bristol
• Fundació i2CAT
• University of Thessaly

• Universities (3x), Research Institutes (2x), SMEs (2x), Operators (2x),

Industry partners (3x)

• 3 years duration
• Started: 01/07/2015
• 7.2 million euro EU funding 2
5G-XHAUL PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

RU
RU
RU
5G-Xhaul Wireless 60GHz /Sub-6 links for FH/BH
RU RU
Backhaul/Fronthaul FH
eNB vBBU1 vBBU2 BH

eNB Fronthaul
RU
WDM-PON vBBU1
RU vBBU2
Small Macro TSON vBBU
Cells RU Cell
VM
HeNB GW Data Centers
WLAN GW HeNB Backhaul vBBU
WiFi
HeNB vBBU S GW/GSN
Femto EPC
Cells
HeNB Wireless Access vBBU
Internet
VM
PDN-GW

HeNB: Home eNodeB vBBU: Virtual Base Band Unit EPC: Evolved Packet Core
VM: Virtual Machine RU: Remote Unit S GW: Serving GateWay
GW: Gateway PDN-GW: Packet Data Network GateWay

 The 5G-XHaul data plane considers an integrated optical and wireless network infrastructure
for transport and access.
 The wireless domain comprises small cells complemented by macro cells.
 Fronthaul and backhauli can be supported through mmWave and Sub-6 wireless
technologies or using a hybrid optical network platform combining both passive and active
optical technologies.
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5G-XHAUL INPUT TO THE
5G PPP VIEW ON 5G ARCHITECTURE

FlexGrid
ROADM
MP2MP
Elastic Frame-
based WDM Metro
FlexGrid MP2MP
ROADM
FlexGrid
MP2MP ROADM

FlexGrid
ROADM

MP2MP

• 5G PPP View on 5G Architecture – (White

Paper), https://5g-ppp.eu/white-papers/
• 5G PPP View on 5G Architecture - Section
5 - Physical architecture, V. Jungnickel,
Fraunhofer HHI, WORKSHOP 1:
International Workshop on 5G
Architecture, EuCNC 2016
 5G-XHAUL OVERARCHING LAYERED ARCHITECTURE
Development
focus

Management & Service

RU Virtual FH (upper
vBBU
End Virtual BH End

Orchestration
layers)
Point B
 high network bandwidth forwarding
Point A
forwarding
 Increased BBU sharing vBBU
Virtual Virtual Virtual Virtual
(lower layers) VM
Wireless Optical Wireless Optical
MAC
(5)
Cloud RAN

Element Management
EM Element Management (EM) EM

Control
Decoding (EM)

(4) SDN SDN

Controller VNF VNF
Controller
Receive
processing
(3)
Virtual Virtual
Inf Management

Resource Processing Processing

Network Network
Traditional RAN

demapping Physical Physical

Network Network
(2) Virtualization Virtualization Virtualization Virtualization
Cycle Prefix
& FFT
(1)
mmWave
LTE Network Compute WDM PON TSON Compute
RF to Network
Controller Controller Controller Controller Controller
Controller
Baseband
Managed PHY Inf

 low network bandwidth RRH Backhaul Fronthaul

RRH RRH
 Limited BBU sharing vBBU
vBBU Internet
Drivers
VM VM

Data Centers Data Centers

Wireless Access/Transport Optical Transport

A. Tzanakaki et al., "5G infrastructures supporting end-user and operational services: The 5G-XHaul architectural perspective," 2016 IEEE
International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2016, pp. 57-62
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 ARCHITECTURE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

mmWave links Optical fiber TSON nodes Large scale DC

Snapshot of spatial traffic load

Bristol 5G city network topology with mmWave
backhauling

Mullti-objevctive optimisation model aims to identify the optimal resources and policies that can
support the required services in terms of both topology and resources.

Optimal FH and BH service provisioning, with the overall objective to maximise the energy efficiency
of the infrastructure and minimize end-to-end service delays.

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A. Tzanakaki et all, “Wireless-Optical Network Convergence: Enabling the 5G Architecture to Support Operational and End-User Services“
IEEE Comms Magazine, August 2017
 NUMERICAL RESULTS: ENERGY-DELAY

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Average data rate (Mbps)

0 20 40 60 80

60

40

20

10 10

5 5
Y (km) X (km)
d)
0 0 Km

• Figs a) and d): average traffic per BS and spatial traffic distribution for the wireless access domain
• The C-RAN approach offers significant energy savings (60-75%) (Fig. b)
• Overloading of network resources to support FH, the C-RAN case increases the end-to-end service
delay in the BH (Fig. c), which remains below 20ms for a 100 Mbps flow request
• The BH service delay for C-RAN vBBU is lower compared to the delay for the C-RAN fixed BBU case
DATA-PLANE: WIRELESS

 mmWave (60GHz) Front End design

 Antenna & BFIC
5G-XHaul mmWave
BFIC
 mmWave Base Band design
 MIMO/Beam alignment and tracking/P2MP
 Channel modelling 5G-XHaul mmWave
nodes

 Synchronization in wireless backhaul: 1588v2, ToF based

 Functional splits for 5G-RANs (NGFI):

 Impact on transport requirements
 Specific development for Massive MIMO
Massive MIMO array
supporting 5G-XHaul
 Self-backhauling: Joint access and backhaul functional split

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 DATA-PLANE: OPTICAL
 Hybrid passive/active optical network solution supporting joint FH & BH
 Active: Time Shared Optical Networks (TSON)
 Elastic BW allocation (time slices)
 Extensions for elastic grid
 Native mapping of Ethernet and CPRI
 Synchronization
TSON FPGA
implementation
 Passive: flexible WDM-PON
 40λs, 10-25 Gbps/λ, 20-40 Km  Switch off ONUs for energy saving
 Color-less ONUs (out-of-band mgmt)  Flexible assignment BBU-RRH
OLT
OLT RN ONU 1
BBU
Tx Array L T-LD
… 1 Cyclic AWG C
Cross-connect

MUX

2 L
BBU
... ... C ONU n Rx
n
L T-LD
C
Rx Array
1 Rx
DEMUX

2
... ...
Ethernet
switch n

5G-XHaul WDM-PON architecture

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DATA-PLANE: WDM-PON & TSON INTEGRATION
 Testbed configuration of TSON and WDM-PON
 Integration using BIO dark fiber

OLT

MUX
TSON Network SMF
Dark fibre

Cross-connect
Rx Tx Tx

1310 nm
Tx Rx

L-band

DEMUX
TSON TSON

DCF
SFP+

BristolIsOpen (BIO)
Ch.1 SFP+
Node 1 Node 2 SMF

L-band downstream
Analyser
Ethernet

Rx Tx Tx Rx Rx EDFA

C-band upstream

Dark fibre
Tx Tx

L-band
1310 nm
Rx
WDM-PON link
Ch.2
Tx Rx Rx
Transponder

Tx Tx

MUX
SFP+ SMF
Rx Rx SMF Dark fibre
C-band
VCSEL SFP+

DEMUX
ONU
RN

10

Downstream Latency TSON Node 1&2 ONU OLT side

DATA-PLANE: MASSIVE MIMO FH OVER WDM-PON

RF cable
Transponder

CPRI ONU
Colored λ-agnostic
…

…
DWDM DWDM

ONU

Baseband unit CPRI over WDM

(I/Q samples) ADVA RRH UE receiver
AIR AIR TUD
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CITY-TRIALS: BIO INFRASTRUCTURE

Optical Network
144-fiber core network
connecting 4 active nodes,
full optical switching, flexi optical

Wireless & Mobile

Net.
Wi-Fi 802.11ac, LTE, mmWave,
Massive MIMO, 60GHz backhaul

RF Mesh Network
8 Fiber-connected lampposts
with 1,500 photocells and
any-sensor hosting capability

Computing
Infrastructure
HPC facility, commodity
compute/storage, private cloud
and edge mobile computing
SAMPLE OF PLANNED DEMONSTRATION IN BRISTOL
(JUNE’18)

TSO
N

TSO
N

OLT

ON
U COMPUTE
Massive
MIMO

BBU

mmWav Sub6
e
TSO
N

FRONTHAUL (CPRI)

BACKHAUL (ETH)
Hotspo
t

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 Thanks for
your attention!

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