Radio-over-Fiber Architecture for Simultaneous Feeding of 5.5 and 41 GHz WiFi or WiMAX Access Networks

Author

Pfrommer, H. ; Piqueras, M.A. ; Polo, V. ; Herrera, J. ; Martinez, A. ; Marti, J.

Author_Institution

Nanophotonics Technol. Center, Univ. Politecnica de Valencia

fYear

2006

fDate

11-16 June 2006

Firstpage

301

Lastpage

303

Abstract

A radio-over-fiber architecture for feeding WiFi (IEEE802.11a) or WiMAX (IEEE802.16) access nodes is demonstrated. The technique is able to feed the nodes with the same signals simultaneously in the 5.5 and 41 GHz bands. This centralized architecture allows for easier channel accumulation in occupied-hot-spots environments and has no need for complex hand-over processes while the user is moving within the network, as all channels are available at all access nodes at any time

Keywords

WiMax; radio access networks; radio-over-fibre; wireless LAN; wireless channels; 41 GHz; 5.5 GHz; IEEE802.11a; IEEE802.16; Mach-Zehnder modulator; WiFi; WiMAX; hand-over; occupied-hot-spots environments; radio-over-fiber; wireless access network; Feeds; Local oscillators; Optical attenuators; Optical modulation; RF signals; Signal generators; Stimulated emission; Telecommunication traffic; WiMAX; Wireless LAN; Mach-Zehnder modulator; Radio-over-fiber; access network; wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 2006. IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9541-7

Electronic_ISBN

0149-645X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2006.249510

Filename

4014887