Analysis of performance degradation in radio-over-fiber systems based on IEEE 802.16 protocol

2009 IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications, LATINCOM '09 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Gomes, Pedro Henrique ^a   Da Fonseca, Nelson L S ^a   Branquinho, Omar C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Broadband wireless access (BWA); Performance evaluation; Radio over fiber (RoF); WiMAX

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; APPLICATION LAYERS; BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESSS; CELL SIZE; COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES; COST-EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS; FIBER LENGTH; FIBER LINKS; IEEE 802.16; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PHYSICAL LAYERS; PROPAGATION DELAYS; RADIO OVER FIBER SYSTEM; RADIO-OVER-FIBER (ROF); RADIO-OVER-FIBERS; WIMAX NETWORKS; WIRELESS CONNECTIVITIES;

DEGRADATION; INTEROPERABILITY; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; OPTICAL FILTERS; SIMULATORS; TUNING; WIMAX; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

FIBERS;

EID: 70649100591     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/LATINCOM.2009.5304796     Document Type: Conference Paper

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