Intelligent Base Station Architecture Support for 4G Systems

An information transport platform must provide high-speed, large volume, good quality, global coverage and flexibility to roam. To ensure this effective global coverage, we try to derive the benefits of mobile ad-hoc networks research and couple it with the reconfiguration technology. Towards this end a flat type IP architecture is proposed that enables a rapid deployment of micro-and pico type of base stations and incorporates the open radio access network (RAN) within the all-IP paradigm. Within that architecture, wireless nodes or access points have to be interconnected using a long-haul backbone network. The proposed architecture exploits the idea of coupled physical layer adaptation and scheduling leading to intelligent algorithm design for such future wireless networks. (A. Mihovska, S. Ponnekanti, C. Wijting)