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| Author(s): |
Carlos Alberto Astudillo Trujillo
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Computação |
| Defense date: | 2015-06-03 |
| Examining board members: |
Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca;
Miguel Elias Mitre Campista;
Leandro Aparecido Villas
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| Advisor: | Juliana Freitag Borin; Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca |
| Abstract | |
The increasing demand for mobile broadband access has motivated mobile network operators (MNOs) to deploy the long term evolution (LTE) technology, which allows the support of new services demanding large amount of bandwidth and strict QoS requirements. The growth of bandwidth demands will increase dramatically the number of base stations and the amount of traffic injected into the mobile backhaul (MBH) network. To cope with the high cost of MBH networks, passive optical networks (PONs) can be employed by using the already deployed fiber to anywhere (FTTx) systems. Moreover, the LTE base station, also known as evolved NodeB (eNB), can be integrated with the optical network unit (ONU) in a single device, called ONU-eNB, which competes for bandwidth with other ONUs in PONs. Such competition for bandwidth can jeopardize the support of mobile users¿ quality of service (QoS) requirements. This dissertation proposes a QoS provisioning framework for LTE mobile networks employing Ethernet PON (EPON)-based backhaul. It also introduces a novel LTE scheduler with the aim of supporting QoS requirements as well as high throughput. The framework includes a functional architecture for the ONU-eNB, a QoS mapping scheme and a method to allow current LTE schedulers to take into account both information available from the mobile access network (LTE) and information from the backhaul network (EPON) in order to improve the overall network performance, specially when the backhaul link is congested. It is shown how the proposed framework can improve network utilization and quality of service provisioning in an integrated network even under variations of traffic load in the backhaul and in the LTE networks (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 12/10582-4 - Quality of Service Provision in LTE-EPON Integrated Networks |
| Grantee: | Carlos Alberto Astudillo Trujillo |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |