Radio-over-fiber transport for the support of wireless broadband services [Invited]

Journal of Optical Networking

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 156-178

  Gomes, Nathan J ^a   Morant, Maria ^b   Alphones, Arokiaswami ^c   Cabon, Béatrice ^d   Mitchell, John E ^e   Lethien, Christophe ^f,g   Csörnyei, Mark ^h   Stöhr, Andreas ⁱ   Iezekiel, Stavros ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d GRENOBLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f INSTITUT D ELECTRONIQUE   (France)

^g UMR National Center for Scientific Research   (France)

^h BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBERS; METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MULTIMODE FIBERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; RADIO TRANSMISSION; RADIO-OVER-FIBER; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

DIRECT LASER MODULATION; EMERGING WIRELESS NETWORKS; MULTIMODE FIBER SYSTEMS; PROTOCOL OPERATION; RADIO OVER FIBER SYSTEM; RADIO-OVER-FIBER TRANSMISSION; THIRD GENERATION MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; WIRELESS METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS;

3G MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 59349086365     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15365379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JON.8.000156     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. M. Sauer, A. Kobyakov, and J. George, "Radio over fiber for picocellular network architectures," J. Lightwave Technol. 25, 3301-3320 (2007).
2. D. Wake, M. Webster, G. Wimpenny, K. Beacham, and L. Crawford, "Radio over fiber for mobile communications," in 2004 IEEE International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics (IEEE, 2004), pp. 157-160.
3. B. Cabon, "Recent Advances and Trends in European Projects on Microwave Photonics," in The Sth Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Photonics Workshop (IEICE, 2007).
4. ECMA-368 International Standard, "High rate ultra wideband PHY and MAC Standard," December 2007.
5. FCC 02-48, "Revision of part 15 of the Commission's rules regarding ultra-wideband transmission systems," April 2002.
6. A. L. Edwards, "The correlation coefficient," in An Introduction to Linear Regression and Correlation (W.H. Freeman, 1976), pp. 33-46.
7. M. Bennett, A. Flatman, and B. Tolley, "Broad market potential of 10 Gb/s Ethernet on FDDI grade MM fiber," IEEE802.3 (IEEE, 2004), available online at http://www.ieee802.org/3/tutorial/mar04/10GMMF-SG-v031604a.pdf.
8. Draka fibers data sheet, available online at http://www.draka.com/draka/ Drakafiber/Languages/English/Navigation/Markets&Products/TechnicaLSupport/ Datasheets/DCOF-MaxCap-550.pdf.
9. Corning fibers data sheet, available online at http://www.corning.com/ opticalfiber/products-applications/products/infinicor.aspx.
10. Asahi Glass Perfluorinated GIPOF Lucina data sheet, available online at http://www.agc.co.jp/english/rd-e/e-lucina.html.
11. Chromis Perfluorinated GIPOF GigaPOF data sheet, available online at http://www.chromisfiber.com/products.htm.
12. C. Lethien, C. Loyez, and J.-P. Vilcot, "Potentials of radio over multimode fiber systems for the in-buildings coverage of mobile and wireless LAN applications," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 17, 2793-2795 (2005).
13. N. J. Gomes, A. Nkansah, and D. Wake, "Radio over MMF techniques, part I: RF to microwave frequency systems," Invited Paper, J. Lightwave Technol. 26, 2388-2395 (2008).
14. D. Wake, A. Nkansah, C. Lethien, C. Sion, J.-P. Vilcot, and N. J. Gomes, "Optically-powered remote units for radio over fiber systems," J. Lightwave Technol. 26, 2484-2491 (2008).
15. H. Al-Raweshidy and S. Komaki, Radio over Fiber Technologies for Mobile Communications Networks (Artech House, 2002).
16. B. J. Dixon, R. D. Pollard, and S. Iezekiel, "Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing in wireless communication systems with multimode fiber feeds," IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech. 49, 1404-1409 (2001).
17. T. Kurt, A. Yongaçoǧlu, and J.-Y. Chouinard, "OFDM and externally modulated multi-mode fibers in radio over fiber systems," IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun. 5, 2669-2674 (2006).
18. D. K. Mynbaev and L. L. Scheiner, Fiber-Optic Communications Technology (Prentice-Hall, 2001).
19. IEEE Standard for Information Technology, Part 11 "802.11a, Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications: High-Speed Physical Layer Extension in the 5 GHz Band" (IEEE, 1999).
20. G. Singh and A. Alphones, "OFDM modulation study for a radio-over-fiber system for wireless LAN (802.11a)," in Fourth. International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing/Fourth IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (IEEE, 2003), pp. 1460-1464.
21. M. Mjeku, B. Kalantari Sabet, J. E. Mitchell, and N. J. Gomes, "TCP and UDP performance over fibre-fed IEEE 802.11b networks," in 12th Microcoll Colloquium on Microwave Communications (2007), pp. 89-92.
22. B. Kalantari Sabet, M. Mjeku, N. J. Gomes, and J. E. Mitchell, "Performance of TCP transmission over IEEE 802.11b network with long fibre distribution links," in ISIS-IPHOBAC Workshop and Summer School, Budapest, Hungary (2007).
23. B. Kalantari-Sabet and J. E. Mitchell, "MAC constraints on the distribution of 802.11 using optical fibre," in Proceedings of the European Conference on Wireless Technology (European Microwave Association, 2006), paper ECWT, poster-2.
24. G. Bianchi, "Performance analysis of the IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function," IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun. 18, 535-547 (2000).
25. M. Mjeku and N. J. Gomes, "Use of different acknowledgement policies for burst transmission in fiber-fed wireless LANs," IEEE Commun. Lett. 11, 601-603 (2007).
26. R. Klinda, V. Bartoss, M. Csörnyei, T. Bánky, and T. Berceli, "General purpose combined optical-wireless ZigBee sensor networks," in ICTON2007, 9th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (IEEE, 2007), pp. 5-8.
27. N. J. Gomes, A. Das, A. Nkansah, M. Mjeku, and D. Wake, "Multimode fibre-fed indoor wireless networks," Invited Paper, in IEEE International Topical Meeting in Microwave Photonics (IEEE, 2006), pp. 1-4.
28. A. Stöhr, M. Weiß, V. Polo, R. Sambaraju, J. L. Corral, J. Marti, M. Huchard, B. Charbonnier, I. Siaud, S. Fedderwitz, and D. Jäger, "60 GHz radio-over-fiber techniques for 10 Gb/s broadband wireless transmission," in Wireless World Research Forum, Ottawa, Canada (WWRF, 2008).
29. M. Weiß, A. Stöhr, M. Huchard, S. Fedderwitz, B. Charbonnier, V. Rymanov, S. Babiel, and D. Jäger, "60 GHz radio-over-fibre wireless system for bridging 10 Gb/s Ethernet links," in European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication, ECOC 2008 (IEEE, 2008), pp. 143-144.