Toward an efficient C-RAN optical fronthaul for the future networks: A tutorial on technologies, requirements, challenges, and solutions

IA Alimi, AL Teixeira, PP Monteiro - … Communications Surveys & …, 2017‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The exponential traffic growth, demand for high speed wireless data communications, as
well as incessant deployment of innovative wireless technologies, services, and …

Performance improvement and cost reduction techniques for radio over fiber communications

VA Thomas, M El-Hajjar, L Hanzo - … Communications Surveys & …, 2015‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Advanced cost reduction and performance improvement techniques conceived for Radio
Over Fiber (ROF) communications are considered. ROF techniques are expected to form the …

Full-duplex transmission of LTE-A carrier aggregation signal over a bidirectional seamless fiber-millimeter-wave system

PT Dat, A Kanno, N Yamamoto… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2015‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a flexible and high-performance fronthaul system for future mobile networks
using a seamless combination of fiber-optic and millimeter-wave (MMW) systems. The …

Subcarrier multiplexing RF plans for analog radio over fiber in heterogeneous networks

L Giorgi, G Bruno, J Nijhof, PJ Urban… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2016‏ - opg.optica.org
Analogue Radio over Fibre together with subcarrier multiplexing and wavelength division
multiplexing is proven to be more cost-efficient when compared to CPRI fronthaul solutions …

Fiber monitoring using a sub-carrier band in a sub-carrier multiplexed radio-over-fiber transmission system for applications in analog mobile fronthaul

PJ Urban, GC Amaral, JP von der Weid - Journal of lightwave …, 2016‏ - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we describe an efficient method for monitoring fiber links utilizing sub-carrier
multiplexing. By assigning a void sub-carrier frequency band for monitoring purposes, the …

A tutorial on fiber monitoring for applications in analogue mobile fronthaul

PJ Urban, GC Amaral, G Żegliński… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2018‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Investigation of optical modulators in optimized nonlinear compensated LTE RoF system

T Kanesan, WP Ng, Z Ghassemlooy… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2014‏ - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we investigate a nonlinear compensation technique with two different
architectures using direct modulation (DM) and external modulation (EM) techniques …

A novel colorless FPLD packaged with TO-Can for 30-Gbit/s preamplified 64-QAM-OFDM transmission

CT Tsai, MC Cheng, YC Chi… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2014‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A colorless FPLD directly modulated by the preamplified 64-QAM-OFDM at 30 Gbit/s is
demonstrated with suppressed intensity noise and modulation distortion due to the …

Characterization of dual-polarization LTE radio over a free-space optical turbulence channel

J Bohata, S Zvanovec, T Korinek, M Mansour Abadi… - Applied …, 2015‏ - opg.optica.org
A dual polarization (DP) radio over a free-space optical (FSO) communication link using a
long-term evolution (LTE) radio signal is proposed and analyzed under different turbulence …

Linearized full duplex radio-over-fiber-over-space mixerless transceiver architecture

M Noweir, M Helaoui, D Oblak… - IEEE Photonics …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a full-duplex Radio-over-Fiber-over-Space (RoFoS) transceiver's
architecture with mixerless frequency conversions. The polarization splitting of the optical …