Mitigation strategy for transmission impairments in millimeter-wave radio-over-fiber networks [Invited]

Journal of Optical Networking

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 201-214

  Lim, Christina ^a   Nirmalathas, Ampalavanapillai ^a,b   Bakaul, Masuduzzaman ^b   Lee, Ka Lun ^a   Novak, Dalma ^a,c   Waterhouse, Rod ^a,c  

^a ARC Special Research Centre for Ultra Broadband Information Networks (CUBIN)   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c Glen Burnie   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIC DISPERSION; FIBERS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; RADIO TRANSMISSION; RADIO-OVER-FIBER;

BROADBAND WIRELESS SERVICES; FIBER CHROMATIC DISPERSION; FIXED WIRELESS ACCESS; MILLIMETER WAVE RADIO OVER FIBERS; MILLIMETER-WAVE (MM-WAVE); TECHNICAL CHALLENGES; TRANSMISSION IMPAIRMENT; ULTRA-HIGH BANDWIDTH;

MILLIMETER WAVES;

EID: 59349093309     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15365379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JON.8.000201     Document Type: Article

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