Techno-economic and business feasibility analysis of 5G transport networks
Book chapter, 2019
This chapter introduces a techno-economic framework that provides a complete market analysis of the various business actors for any type of mobile access network deployments. It presents a case study where the proposed business feasibility framework is applied. The chapter presents a comprehensive techno-economic framework for estimating the total cost of ownership (TCO) of a backhaul network segment as well as for analyzing the business viability of a given wireless network deployment. It focuses on two backhaul technologies: microwave and fiber. The chapter addresses the framework proposed specifically only the backhaul segment, but it is general enough to also be applied to the other 5G transport solutions. It also presents the TCO module used in the proposed framework. The module covers both the Capital Expenditure and the Operational Expenditure aspects of the backhaul segment. The backhaul network is responsible for aggregating the users' traffic from the wireless access to the metro/backbone segment of the network.
Techno-economic framework
Business feasibility framework
5G transport solutions
Wireless access
Mobile access network deployments
Backhaul network segment
Operational expenditure
Total cost of ownership
Capital expenditure
Author
Forough Yaghoubi
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Mozhgan Mahloo
ÅF-Technology
Lena Wosinska
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks
Paolo Monti
Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Fabricio S. Farias
Federal University of Pará
Joao C.W.A. Costa
Federal University of Pará
Jiajia Chen
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks
Optical and Wireless Convergence for 5G Networks
273-295
9781119491590 (ISBN)
Subject Categories
Computer Engineering
Telecommunications
Communication Systems
DOI
10.1002/9781119491590.ch13