Trade-off between power and bandwidth consumption in a reconfigurable xhaul network architecture

The increasing number of wireless devices, the high required traffic bandwidth, and power consumption will lead to a revolution of mobile access networks, which is not a simple evolution of traditional ones. Cloud radio access network technologies are seen as promising solution in order to deal with the heavy requirements defined for 5G mobile networks. The introduction of the common public radio interface (CPRI) technology allows for a centralization in BaseBand unit (BBU) of some access functions with advantages in terms of power consumption saving when switching off algorithms are implemented. Unfortunately, the advantages of the CPRI technology are to be paid with an increase in required bandwidth to carry the traffic between the BBU and the radio remote unit (RRU), in which only the radio functions are implemented. For this reason, a tradeoff solution between power and bandwidth consumption is proposed and evaluated. The proposed solution consists of: 1) handling the traffic generated by the users through both RRU and traditional radio base stations (RBS) and 2) carrying the traffic generated by the RRU and RBS (CPRI and Ethernet flows) with a reconfigurable network. The proposed solution is investigated under the lognormal spatial traffic distribution assumption. After proposing resource dimensioning analytical models validated by simulation, we show how the sum of the bandwidth and power consumption may be minimized with the deployment of a given percentage of RRU. For instance we show how in 5G traffic scenarios this percentage can vary from 30% to 50% according to total traffic amount handled by a switching node of the reconfigurable network

Demonstration of Flexible mmWave Digital Beamforming Transmitter using Sigma-Delta Radio-Over-Fiber Link

This work demonstrates a millimeter-wave digital beamforming transmitter based on a sigma-delta radio-over-fiber link. The digital beamforming is controlled from a central unit and distributed to a remote radio unit using a standardized quad small form-factor pluggable 28 (QSFP28) fiber connection. The experimental results demonstrate 26.2 GHz transmission with high-quality beamforming functionality up to 130 MHz effective radio bandwidth at 2.2 m wireless distance. The solution offers a flexible transmitter solution suitable for millimeter-wave distributed active antenna systems

VIII Encuentro de Docentes e Investigadores en Historia del Diseño, la Arquitectura y la Ciudad

Acta de congresoLa conmemoración de los cien años de la Reforma Universitaria de 1918 se presentó como una ocasión propicia para debatir el rol de la historia, la teoría y la crítica en la formación y en la práctica profesional de diseñadores, arquitectos y urbanistas. En ese marco el VIII Encuentro de Docentes e Investigadores en Historia del Diseño, la Arquitectura y la Ciudad constituyó un espacio de intercambio y reflexión cuya realización ha sido posible gracias a la colaboración entre Facultades de Arquitectura, Urbanismo y Diseño de la Universidad Nacional y la Facultad de Arquitectura de la Universidad Católica de Córdoba, contando además con la activa participación de mayoría de las Facultades, Centros e Institutos de Historia de la Arquitectura del país y la región. Orientado en su convocatoria tanto a docentes como a estudiantes de Arquitectura y Diseño Industrial de todos los niveles de la FAUD-UNC promovió el debate de ideas a partir de experiencias concretas en instancias tales como mesas temáticas de carácter interdisciplinario, que adoptaron la modalidad de presentación de ponencias, entre otras actividades. En el ámbito de VIII Encuentro, desarrollado en la sede Ciudad Universitaria de Córdoba, se desplegaron numerosas posiciones sobre la enseñanza, la investigación y la formación en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño, la arquitectura y la ciudad; sumándose el aporte realizado a través de sus respectivas conferencias de Ana Clarisa Agüero, Bibiana Cicutti, Fernando Aliata y Alberto Petrina. El conjunto de ponencias que se publican en este Repositorio de la UNC son el resultado de dos intensas jornadas de exposiciones, cuyos contenidos han posibilitado actualizar viejos dilemas y promover nuevos debates. El evento recibió el apoyo de las autoridades de la FAUD-UNC, en especial de la Secretaría de Investigación y de la Biblioteca de nuestra casa, como así también de la Facultad de Arquitectura de la UCC; va para todos ellos un especial agradecimiento

Flexible Mm-Wave Sigma-Delta-Over-Fiber MIMO Link

Millimeter-wave and multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) technologies combine broad bandwidth with spatial diversity to offer a greater data rate. This paper investigates a flexible millimeter-wave sigma-delta-over-fiber based transmitter solution with digital beamforming MISO and MIMO functionality. Those functions are controlled by a central unit connecting a remote radio head with a standardized QSFP28 fiber link. The central unit generates binary encoded intermediate frequency signals using bandpass sigma-delta modulation. The QSFP28 based fiber link transmits the intermediate frequency bitstreams to the remote radio head. The remote radio head consists of a QSFP28 module, $90^{\circ }$ hybrids, and upconverters. The remote radio head feeds four parallel, independent, coherent, and central-unit controlled 28\ua0GHz signals to a linear array transmitting antenna. The transmitter performance is experimentally verified, demonstrating up to 800\ua0Msym/s at an EVM/NMSE of 6.7%/-23.5\ua0dB when tested with a 64 quadrature amplitude modulation (64-QAM) modulation scheme. Digital over-the-air beamforming MISO functionality is demonstrated up to 700\ua0Msym/s across 1\ua0m wireless distance. MIMO communication capabilities is demonstrated by over-the-air transmission of two independent 500\ua0Msym/s to two spatially separated receivers. The results show that the proposed link can be used for realization of scalable, low-cost and flexible transmitter solution for emerging distributed antenna systems