CALCULATION OF THE TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP OF 5G NETWORK FOR DIFFERENT TYPES OF ARCHITECTURE: DISTRIBUTED RAN, CENTRALIZED RAN AND OPEN RAN

Due to introduction of the 5G NR standard, an estimation of the total cost of ownership for 5G networks is required, as well as expenses optimization. This paper provides a comparative analysis of the total cost of ownership for 5G networks of various architectures. Various deployment scenarios for D-RAN (Distributed RAN), C-RAN (Centralized RAN) and Open RAN of the radio access network provided by this standard are considered. The results of the work were obtained using mathematical modeling in the Matlab environment.