The exponential traffic growth, demand for high speed wireless data communications, as
well as incessant deployment of innovative wireless technologies, services, and …

As optical fibre reaches deeper into passive optical network (PON) in fibre-to-the-x (FTTx)
networks, maintaining the integrity of these networks is indeed imperative. Essentially, best …

This work reportsa thorough analysis of intensity fluctuations of Rayleigh backscattered
coherent light in single mode optical fibers. Based on the intermediate range order of silica …

Radio over Fiber (RoF) Systems exploiting a direct modulation of the laser source are
presently utilized within important Radioastronomic scenarios. Due to the particular …

Radio access networks must evolve to meet future communication requirements. One of the
development directions is the future radio base station architecture and its functional splits …

Fiber-optics sensors using interrogation based on incoherent optical frequency-domain
reflectometry (I-OFDR) offer benefits such as the high stability of interference in the radio …

In this work we report a comprehensive experimental study targeting the dimensioning of the
next-generation multicore-fibre (MCF) optical fronthaul employing space-division …

We demonstrate an optical fiber fault location method based on the frequency response of
the modulated fiber optical backscattered signal in a steady-state low-frequency step …

In the modern wireless networks, millimeter-wave radio-frequency (RF) bands are becoming
more attractive as they provide larger bandwidth and higher data rates than the today-used …

This chapter discusses the cellular network interface and solution and presents a
comprehensive discussion on the 5G enabling technologies. It introduces the concept of …