A Full-Duplex Diversity-Assisted Hybrid Analogue/Digitized Radio Over Fibre for Optical/Wireless Integration

Author

Thomas, Varghese ; Ghafoor, Saim ; El-Hajjar, Mohammed ; Hanzo, Lajos

Author_Institution

Sch. of ECS, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK

Volume

17

Issue

2

fYear

2013

fDate

Feb-13

Firstpage

409

Lastpage

412

Abstract

A duplex Radio Over Fibre (ROF) ring architecture is proposed taking into account the constraints imposed by the cost of fibre laying and of the optical/electronic components, as well as the spectral efficiency and the duplex link performance. It has been shown that relying on Analogue ROF (AROF) and state-of-the-art Digitized ROF (DROF) architectures for downlink and uplink transmission, respectively, attains a high-integrity duplex performance. A sophisticated amalgam of Optical Carrier Suppression (OCS), Code Division Multiplexing (CDM), optical frequency multiplexing, Optical Carrier Reuse (OCR) and distributed antennas is conceived.

Keywords

antennas; code division multiplexing; optical links; radio-over-fibre; AROF; CDM; DROF; OCR; OCS; analogue ROF architecture; code division multiplexing; digitized ROF architecture; distributed antenna; downlink transmission; duplex link performance; fibre laying cost; full-duplex diversity-assisted hybrid analogue-digitized radio over fibre; high-integrity duplex performance; optical carrier reuse; optical carrier suppression; optical frequency multiplexing; optical-electronic component; optical-wireless integration; spectral efficiency; uplink transmission; Optical character recognition software; Optical fiber communication; Optical fibers; Optical modulation; Optical transmitters; Radio frequency; Radio over fibre (ROF); code division multiplexing (CDM); distributed antenna system (DAS); optical carrier reuse (OCR);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2012.122012.120975

Filename

6400363