Title :
A 60 GHz Wireless Home Area Network With Radio Over Fiber Repeaters
Author :
Guillory, Joffray ; Tanguy, Eric ; Pizzinat, Anna ; Charbonnier, Benoît ; Meyer, Sylvain ; Algani, Catherine ; Li, Hongwu
Author_Institution :
France Telecom R&D, Orange Labs., Lannion, France
Abstract :
Home area networks will have to deal with the future multigigabit wireless systems that are emerging or are under development . These millimeter-wave radio systems achieve data rates up to several Gb/s per channel, but over short distance. So, to expand the radio coverage, we propose to introduce a radio-over-fiber (RoF) infrastructure at home. This paper presents a complete study of a RoF system: the 60 GHz radio coverage is extended using a RoF link working at intermediate frequency with two hops in the air. An experimental setup of such an infrastructure has been realized and characterized. A low-cost solution, working at 850 nm, was chosen using multimode fiber and off-the-shelf millimeter-wave and photonic components. Finally, a real-time transmission between two commercial WirelessHD devices working at 3 Gb/s has been carried out.
Keywords :
millimetre wave devices; radio repeaters; radio-over-fibre; RoF link; bit rate 3 Gbit/s; frequency 60 GHz; millimeter-wave radio system; multigigabit wireless system; multimode fiber; photonic component; radio over fiber repeater; size 850 nm; wireless home area network; wirelessHD device; Optical amplifiers; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber communication; Optical fibers; Optical losses; Radio frequency; Home area network (HAN); IEEE 802.11ad; IEEE 802.15.3c; WirelessHD; optical architecture; optical transducers; radio over fiber (RoF);
Journal_Title :
Lightwave Technology, Journal of
DOI :
10.1109/JLT.2011.2159776
