Cost savings dependence on base station inter-distance in converged access network planning of dense populated areas

Author

Mas Machuca, C. ; Rahman, M. ; Grobe, K. ; Kellerer, W.

Author_Institution

Tech. Univ. Munchen, Munich, Germany

fYear

2014

fDate

6-10 July 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Nowadays, access networks connecting fixed users are independently planned from the mobile backhaul, which interconnects the base stations. This independence causes high capital expenditures due to the investment of having two networks instead of a single one. The recently proposed Hybrid PON architecture could be used to offer more bandwidth to the base stations (10 Gbps) and less bandwidth to residential users (300-500 Mbps). This paper aims at comparing the fiber layout and infrastructure cost differences when using a converged access planning versus a disjoint planning. This comparison analyzes the impact of the number of base stations and their inter-distance (i.e. different cell sizes) on the savings.

Keywords

costing; optical interconnections; passive optical networks; telecommunication industry; telecommunication network planning; base station interconnection; base station interdistance; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; bit rate 300 Mbit/s to 500 Mbit/s; capital expenditure; converged optical access network planning; cost saving dependence; dense populated area; fiber layout; hybrid PON architecture; infrastructure cost difference; mobile backhaul; Base stations; Buildings; Ducts; Optical fiber cables; Passive optical networks; Planning; access network planning; cost evaluation; next generation optical access networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2014 16th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Graz

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2014.6876417

Filename

6876417