Delmande, Amol, Browning, Colm, Farhang, Arman, Marchetti, Nicola, Doyle, Linda E., Koilpillai, David, Barry, Liam P. and Venkitesh, Deepa (2018) Performance Analysis of Analog IF over Fiber Fronthaul link with 4G & 5G Co-existence. Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, 10 (3). pp. 174-182. ISSN 1943-0620
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Abstract
Fifth generation (5G) mobile communications will
require a dense deployment of small cell antenna sites and higher
channel bandwidth, in conjunction with a cloud radio access
network (C-RAN) architecture. This necessitates low latency and
high capacity architecture in addition to energy and cost efficient
fronthaul links. An efficient way of achieving such connectivity is
to make use of optical fiber based infrastructure where multiple
wireless services may be distributed over the same fiber to remote
radio head (RRH) sites. In this work, we demonstrate the spectral
containment of 4G long term evolution (LTE) signal and 5G candidate waveforms - generalized frequency division multiplexing
(GFDM) and universally filtered orthogonal frequency division
multiplexing (UF-OFDM), through a directly modulated link. 75
bands of LTE and 10 bands of 5G waveforms are successfully
transmitted over 25 km analog intermediate frequency signal
over fiber (AIFoF) link through our setup, limited only by the
bandwidth of the laser. For the first time, we demonstrate the
fronthaul network for providing simultaneous 4G & 5G services
by propagating LTE signals in coexistence with UF-OFDM.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | 4G; Long Term Evolution; 5G; Universally Filtered Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing; Generalized Frequency Division Multiplexing; Analog IF over Fiber; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > Electronic Engineering |
Item ID: | 13285 |
Identification Number: | 10.1364/JOCN.10.000174 |
Depositing User: | Arman Farhang |
Date Deposited: | 24 Sep 2020 16:35 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Optical Communications and Networking |
Publisher: | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
Refereed: | Yes |
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URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/13285 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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