Next generation fiber-wireless fronthaul for 5G mmWave networks

G Kalfas, C Vagionas, A Antonopoulos… - IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
mmWave radio, although instrumental for achieving the required 5G capacity KPIs,
necessitates the need for a very large number of access points, which places an immense …

96-Channel on-chip reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer for multidimensional multiplexing systems

W Zhao, Y Peng, X Cao, S Zhao, R Liu, Y Wei, D Liu… - …, 2022 - degruyter.com
The multi-dimensional multiplexing technology is very promising for further increasing the
link capacity of optical interconnects. A 96-channel silicon-based on-chip reconfigurable …

A 5G fiber wireless 4Gb/s WDM fronthaul for flexible 360 coverage in V-band massive MIMO small cells

E Ruggeri, A Tsakyridis, C Vagionas… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Towards relieving the bandwidth limitations in 5G mobile fronthaul networks, a Fiber
Wireless (FiWi) small cell architecture is presented, relying on spectrally efficient analog …

Reconfigurable fiber wireless IFoF fronthaul with 60 GHz phased array antenna and silicon photonic ROADM for 5G mmWave C-RANs

A Tsakyridis, E Ruggeri, G Kalfas… - IEEE Journal on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate experimentally a bandwidth-reconfigurable mmWave Fiber Wireless (FiWi)
fronthaul bus topology for spectrally efficient and flexibly reconfigurable 5G Centralized …

A silicon photonic switching platform for flexible converged centralized-radio access networking

C Browning, Q Cheng, NC Abrams… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Unprecedented levels of device connectivity and the emergence of futuristic digital services
are driving fundamental changes to underlying fixed and wireless data transport networks …

A 51 Gb/s Reconfigurable mmWave fiber-wireless C-RAN supporting 5G/6G MNO network sharing

R Maximidis, C Vagionas, G Kalfas… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The growing demand for ubiquitous broadband connectivity in 5G/6G Radio Access
Networks (RANs) has turned Centralized RAN (C-RAN) and reconfigurable Point-to …

A future proof reconfigurable wireless and fixed converged optical fronthaul network using silicon photonic switching strategies

J **a, T Li, Q Cheng, M Glick, M Crisp… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Broadband access services in the era of 5G and beyond are driving the evolution of optical
access networks from a fiber-to-the-home/fiber-to-the-building infrastructure to a more …

Active polarization controller based on micro-ring resonators

Y Huo, J Niu, X Fu, S Liu, C Cheng, L Yang - Optics Letters, 2023 - opg.optica.org
On-chip polarization handling is of great significance for optical interconnects to overcome
polarization sensitivity. In this Letter, we propose and experimentally demonstrate a novel, to …

5G Xhaul and service convergence: transmission, switching and automation enabling technologies

P Iovanna, F Cavaliere, S Stracca, L Giorgi… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
The article provides a review of the Xhaul network in terms of architecture, transmission,
switching, and service provisioning automation, with the objective to illustrate the state of the …

Reconfigurable fiber wireless fronthaul with A-RoF and D-RoF co-existence through a Si3N4 ROADM for heterogeneous mmWave 5G C-RANs

E Ruggeri, C Vagionas, R Maximidis… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Towards enabling bandwidth-hungry 5G applications, a Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) mobile
fronthaul architecture is experimentally presented supporting the co-existence of spectrally …