Enhanced MAC design for convergence of 5G backhaul network

Modern 5G network are becoming denser and more agile in terms of deployment options. The average throughput and overall capacity of 5G networks are continuously growing by using variety of new solutions. However, backhaul technologies for mobile network are either low capable or inconvenient for dense deployment. In this paper, we propose a new design for converged 5G backhaul based on improved passive optical network architecture and time-frequency based resource allocation. The advantages of the proposed convergent backhaul are in unified resource allocation that ensures compatibility of optical and wireless backhaul with OFDMA based 5G radio access networks.