EdgeLink™ mmW Mesh Transport experiments in the Berlin 5G-Crosshaul Testbed

Abstract

This paper presents the performance results for a series of outdoor experiments conducted on a fifth generation (5G) mmW Mesh Transport system to show multiplexing of high throughput fronthaul (FH) and backhaul (BH) traffic over a long-range mmW link with exceedingly low latency. The EdgeLink™ millimeter wave (mmW) system was deployed as part of the European 5G-Crosshaul H2020 5G-PPP project where an outdoor mesh network was setup in Berlin with link distances up to 185 meters. The inclusion of a self-organizing Mesh topology guarantees failure recovery within the system through redundant paths which are managed by a cloud based software defined network (SDN) controller.