Title :
Carrier ethernet for mobile backhaul
Author :
Briggs, Peter ; Chundury, Rajesh ; Olsson, Jonathan
Author_Institution :
Ericsson UK, Coventry, UK
fDate :
10/1/2010 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The wide adoption of mobile broadband services by users of smartphones and other mobile terminals is being enabled by radio access technologies with better performance than many fixed residential broadband lines. Mobile network operators are upgrading their networks to deliver growing packet traffic cost effectively, while maintaining critical operational functions such as base station synchronization and resilience to faults. Carrier Ethernet technology is figuring strongly in the upgrade from the existing TDM mobile backhaul between radio base stations and mobile core networks.
Keywords :
broadband networks; local area networks; mobile computing; mobile radio; radio access networks; telecommunication traffic; time division multiplexing; TDM mobile backhaul; base station synchronization; carrier Ethernet technology; fixed residential broadband lines; mobile broadband services; mobile core networks; mobile network operators; mobile terminals; packet traffic cost; radio access technologies; radio base stations; Ethernet networks; GSM; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Multiaccess communication; Radio access networks; Spread spectrum communication;
Journal_Title :
Communications Magazine, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MCOM.2010.5594683
