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Macroscopic and microscopic techno-economic analyses highlighting aspects of 5G transport network deployments

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5G networks will comprise multiple, versatile infrastructures at finest granularity consisting of multiple disaggregated pools of network, compute and storage resources. To support the 5G network architectures and satisfy the access network demanding performance requirements, transport networks consisting of various converging technologies shall provide mechanisms to support deployment flexibility and scalability. The various deployment alternatives of transport network technologies and topologies in real network deployments shall take into account various factors such as area specifics, technologies’ deployment feasibility, traffic/usage forecasts considering long-term services roadmaps and certainly, the implicated costs. Thus, transport network planning and dimensioning shall be tightly accompanied by the techno-economic analysis of the various deployment alternatives. This paper provides insights of 5G transport network technologies and deployments as retrieved through macroscopic and microscopic technoeconomic analyses and demonstrates their applicability on the architectural concepts of 5G-PICTURE 5G-PPP project.

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The research leading to these results has received funding from the EU Framework Programme H2020 under Grant Agreement No. 762057, Project Name “5G-PICTURE: "5G Programmable Infrastructure Converging disaggregated neTwork and compUte REsources”.

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  1. COSMOTE Mobile Telecommunications S.A., Athens, Greece

    Ioanna Mesogiti, George Lyberopoulos, Fotini Setaki & Eleni Theodoropoulou

  2. Telecom Italia, Turin, Italy

    Andrea Di Giglio, Alessandro Pelcelsi & Laura Serra

  3. ADVA Optical Networking SE, Meiningen, Germany

    Jim Zou

  4. University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

    Anna Tzanakaki & Markos Anastasopoulos

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Mesogiti, I., Lyberopoulos, G., Setaki, F. et al. Macroscopic and microscopic techno-economic analyses highlighting aspects of 5G transport network deployments. Photon Netw Commun 40, 256–268 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11107-020-00912-w

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