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Hardware Acceleration for Open Radio Access Networks: A Contemporary Overview
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- Radio access networks (RAN) are going through a paradigm shift towards interoperable, intelligent, software-defined, and cloud-native open RAN solutions. A key challenge towards the adoption and deployment of open RAN at scale is performance. Hence, it is critical to leverage the power of hardware acceleration to offload compute-heavy RAN workloads to specialized hardware devices to enable accelerated compute for open RAN deployments. In this article, we provide a state-of-the-art overview of hardware acceleration for open RAN in the fifth generation (5G) wireless networks. We also present a practical implementation of inline hardware acceleration for open RAN layer 1 processing and identify several areas for future exploration towards the sixth generation (6G) wireless networks.<br />Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures
Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.2305.09588
- Document Type :
- Working Paper