https://devblogs.nvidia.com/building-accelerated-5g-cloudran-at-the-edge/
Mellanox ConnectX-6 Dx SmartNIC exceeds stringent industry-standard timing specifications for eCPRI-based RANs by ensuring clock accuracy of 16ns or less
5T for 5G enables packet-based, ethernet RANs to provide precise time-stamping of packets for delivering highly accurate time references to 5G fronthaul and backhaul networks.
5T-for-5G, or time-triggered transmission technology for telco
https://news.developer.nvidia.com/new-real-time-smartnic-technology-5t-for-5g/
Real-time transmission hardware acceleration: 5T-for-5G simplifies time synchronization and data transmission across servers, GPUs, radios, and baseband units in wireless network rollouts, making 5G rollouts easier and more efficient.
Toward 5G RAN virtualization by Intel and Astri
http://astri.oeg
Flexible architecture Modular PHY processing architectures PDCP Split MAC/PHY Split - HARQ processing in RRU(How???) Lower PHY Split - High FB overhead but smallest packet latency. Good for JT and JR for COMP Good for Massive MIMO and Ultra low-latency communication(Why?) FAPI based MAC/PHY communication L1 adaptation layer for MAC/PHY split (and Lower PHY Split?) MAC/PHY split in one CPU MAC/PHY split in one machine but netrwork based MAC/PHY communication over OVS Virtual Cell A group of physical cells form a Virtual Cell which does not require HO between the physical cells.
From Amdocs Preps ‘Carrier-Grade’ Version of ONAP | Light Reading(http://www.lightreading.com/mobile/mec-(mobile-edge-computing)/amdocs-preps-carrier-grade-version-of-onap/d/d-id/738315)
“We’re just about to make a big carrier [and] enterprise grade release of ONAP,” Angela Logothetis, VP and CTO of Amdocs Open Network, told Light Reading
Logothetis says that Amdocs is working with Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC) on edge computing proofs-of-concept. This involves understanding what content and data needs to cached and where exactly that should happen on the network.