Architectures and Enabling Technologies for Super-Broadband Radio-over-Fiber Optical-Wireless Access Networks

Author

Chang, Gee-Kung ; Yu, Jianjun ; Jia, Zhensheng

Author_Institution

Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta

fYear

2007

fDate

3-5 Oct. 2007

Firstpage

24

Lastpage

28

Abstract

The integration of super-broadband optical and wireless systems is considered to be one of the most promising solutions to increase capacity and mobility as well as decreasing overall costs in next-generation access networks. In this paper, desirable features of network architectures and enabling technologies for delivering future super-broadband dual services are investigated. These key technologies include optical millimeter-wave (mm-wave) generation and transmission in downlink direction; full-duplex operation by using centralized light source in uplink and integration with WDM PON.

Keywords

broadband networks; optical fibre subscriber loops; radio-over-fibre; telecommunication network topology; telecommunication services; WDM PON; centralized light source; enabling technologies; full-duplex operation; network architectures; next-generation access networks; optical millimeter-wave generation; optical transmission; optical-wireless access networks; super-broadband dual services; super-broadband radio-over-fiber; Integrated optics; Millimeter wave technology; Optical fiber networks; Optical filters; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Passive optical networks; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing; Optical-wireless; millimeter-wave (mm-wave); optical carrier suppression (OCS); phase modulation; radio-over-fiber (ROF); wavelength division multiplexing passive optical network (WDM PON; wired and wireless;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Photonics, 2007 IEEE International Topical Meeting on

Conference_Location

Victoria, BC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1167-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1168-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWP.2007.4378126

Filename

4378126