2020/01/12 by Camila Novaes, Novaes, Camila, Cleverson Nahum +9
Computer Science · Engineering · #Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization #Caching and Content Delivery #Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks #FOS: Electrical engineering #Signal Processing (eess.SP) #Software-Defined Networks and 5G #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2001.08992
openalex publication_date 2020/01/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Virtualization is a key feature in Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN). It can\nhelp to save costs since it allows the use of virtualized base stations instead\nof physically deployment in different areas. However, the creation and\nmanagement of virtual base stations pools is not trivial and introduces new\nchallenges to C-RAN deployment. This paper reports a method to orchestrate and\nmanage a container-based C-RAN. We used several instances of the\nOpenAirInterface software running on Docker containers, and orchestrated them\nusing Kubernetes. We demonstrate that using Kubernetes it is possible to\ndynamically scale remote radio heads (RRHs) and baseband units (BBUs) according\nto requirements of the network and parameters such as the server resources\nusage.\n