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CAREER: Toward Efficient and Scalable Mobile Fronthaul Empowered by Analog Radio-over-Fibe — NSF Award to Duke University (NC, $48

Over 100 trillion megabytes of data are currently consumed per year by mobile users in the U.S. alone. All this traffic is transported to users’ devices through cell sites (base stations) from the cloud. In a traditional cellular network, both the radio head and the baseband processing unit are located together at the

Award titleCAREER: Toward Efficient and Scalable Mobile Fronthaul Empowered by Analog Radio-over-Fibe
Award ID2443137
AwardeeDuke University
CityDURHAM
StateNC
Amount obligated$482,166
Principal investigatorTingjun Chen
ProgramNetworking Technology and Syst
Start date07/01/2025
AbstractOver 100 trillion megabytes of data are currently consumed per year by mobile users in the U.S. alone. All this traffic is transported to users’ devices through cell sites (base stations) from the cloud. In a traditional cellular network, both the radio head and the baseband processing unit are located together at the cell site. In future radio access networks (RANs), the radio unit (RU) is located at the cell site while the processing unit is located at the distributed/centralized unit (DU/CU),
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