Real-Time Routing for Wireless Relay Fronthaul with Vehicle-Mounted Radio Units

The concept of vehicle-mounted crowdsourced radio units (CRUs) for a smart city has been proposed to utilize the power of citizens in the deployment of small cells of the centralized radio access network (C-RAN) architecture. Wireless relay fronthaul networking is a promising solution for efficient utilization of vehicle-mounted small cells. However, there have been no routing schemes that can satisfy the strict delay requirements of mobile fronthaul coping with the high dynamicity of vehicles. Thus, this paper proposes a real-time routing scheme for establishing wireless relay fronthaul with vehicle-mounted CRUs. The route optimization is formulated as a boolean satisfiability problem (SAT), and an FPGA-based SAT solver is employed for the fast computation. It can dynamically optimize the forwarding paths in real-time with the constraints of delay requirements. The performance of the proposed routing scheme is confirmed via computer simulations.