A Comprehensive Survey of RAN Architectures Toward 5G Mobile Communication System

The fifth generation (5G) of mobile communication system aims to deliver a ubiquitous mobile service with enhanced quality of service (QoS). It is also expected to enable new use-cases for various vertical industrial applications—such as automobiles, public transportation, medical care, e...

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Published in:	IEEE Access
Main Authors:	Mohammad Asif Habibi, Meysam Nasimi, Bin Han, Hans D. Schotten
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	IEEE 2019-01-01
Subjects:	5G radio access network network architecture cloud-RAN distributed-RAN fog-RAN
Online Access:	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8723481/

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