Robust optical wireless link for the backhaul and fronthaul of small radio cells

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1523-1532

  Schulz, Dominic ^a   Jungnickel, Volker ^a   Alexakis, Christos ^a   Schlosser, Michael ^b   Hilt, Jonas ^a   Paraskevopoulos, Anagnostis ^a   Grobe, Liane ^c   Farkas, Péter ^a   Freund, Ronald ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b BISDN GMBH   (Germany)

^c P3 Communications GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

5G; Backhaul; Fronthaul; LED; LTE; Optical Wireless Communications; Small Cells

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; RADIO LINKS; WI-FI;

BACKHAUL; FRONTHAUL; OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; OPTICAL WIRELESS LINK; OPTOELECTRONIC COMPONENTS; RATE ADAPTIVE TRANSMISSION; REAL-TIME OPERATION; SMALL CELLS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84963946774     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2016.2523801     Document Type: Article

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