Energy Efficiency Benefits of RAN-as-a-Service Concept for a Cloud-Based 5G Mobile Network Infrastructure

This paper focuses on energy efficiency aspects and related benefits of radio-access-network-as-a-service (RANaaS) implementation (using commodity hardware) as architectural evolution of LTE-advanced networks toward 5G infrastructure. RANaaS is a novel concept introduced recently, which enables the...

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Main Authors: Dario Sabella, Antonio de Domenico, Efstathios Katranaras, Muhammad Ali Imran, Marco di Girolamo, Umer Salim, Massinissa Lalam, Konstantinos Samdanis, Andreas Maeder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2014-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6990725/