DocumentCode :
2109470
Title :
Novel digital radio over fibre for 4G-LTE
Author :
Li, Tongyun ; Penty, Richard V. ; White, Ian H.
Author_Institution :
Centre for Photonic System, Electrical Division, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA, UK
fYear :
2015
fDate :
8-12 June 2015
Firstpage :
312
Lastpage :
317
Abstract :
Digital radio over fibre (RoF) technology has been suggested as a promising solution to replace conventional analogue RoF technology for multi-service in-building wireless coverage. However in conventional digital RoF, digitisation leads to high data rates which in turn results in high capital expenditure (CAPEX) and operational expenditure (OPEX). This paper investigates a novel methodology to transmit efficiently a digitised radio service over an optical link to provide wireless coverage. We demonstrate a digital processing technique that is able to compress the digitised 20MHz bandwidth Long Term Evolution (LTE) data stream to a much lower level than in a conventional link without impairing its radio performance.
Keywords :
Bandwidth; Field programmable gate arrays; Long Term Evolution; Optical fibers; Quantization (signal); Transceivers; Wireless communication; Data Compression; Data Rate; Digital Signal Processing; Digitisation; Distributed Antenna System (DAS); Dynamic Range; Error Value Magnitude (EVM); In-building Wireless; Long Term Evolution (LTE); Radio over Fibre (RoF);
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Communication Workshop (ICCW), 2015 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
London, United Kingdom
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICCW.2015.7247197
Filename :
7247197
Link To Document :
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