Enabling Technologies for Comprehensive Optical Mobile Fronthaul Access Network

In this paper, we review the recent progress of our works on a comprehensive optical mobile fronthaul access network for 5G Era and beyond. Enabling technologies including A-RoF, CPRI, eCPRI and hybrid A/D-RoF are introduced.

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