Phase and Time Synchronization for 5G C-RAN: Requirements, Design Challenges and Recent Advances in Standardization
Daniel Philip Venmani, Yannick Lagadec, Olivier Lemoult, Fabrice Deletre · EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems · 2018
Cloud-RAN is one of the key enablers for 5G. In this paper we present the importance of network synchronization for the fronthaul architectures. The term network synchronization refers to the distribution of time and frequency among spatially distributed remote nodes. Underlining this point, we inve