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5G NR Logical Architecture and Its Functional Splits
5G NR Logical Architecture and Its Functional Splits
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Table of Contents
Introduction.............................................................................................. 3
vRU ......................................................................................................... 9
RRH......................................................................................................... 9
Summary ............................................................................................... 11
References ............................................................................................ 12
Figure 5 shows high level criteria which need to be considered for specific splits during the network design
phase. While in dense urban areas with high traffic load and near perfect FH most of the protocol can be
located at CU, for rural deployment and less than perfect FHs it is logical to push more protocol stack layers to
the DU [5].