Design and simulation of a Radio Over Fiber system and its performance analysis

Author

Johny, J. ; Shashidharan, S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Hindustan Univ., Chennai, India

fYear

2012

fDate

3-5 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

636

Lastpage

639

Abstract

A Radio Over Fiber has the special characteristic feature of having both a fiber optic link and a free space radio path. Fiber based wireless (Fi-Wi) access facilitates high-capacity multimedia services in a real-time basis. The simulation model developed using Optisystem 10 have integrated systems for both RF wireless and optical fiber whereby, the ROF network model consists of a central station, a remote access unit and an optical fiber link model that uses the commercially available parameters. We also investigates the variations in Q factor, BER and eye opening with respect to the wavelength, bit rate and fiber length using the simulation software.

Keywords

Q-factor; error statistics; multimedia communication; optical links; radio-over-fibre; BER; Fi-Wi access; Optisystem; Q factor; RF wireless; ROF network model; central station; fiber based wireless access; fiber optic link; free space radio path; high-capacity multimedia services; optical fiber link model; radio over fiber system; real-time basis; remote access unit; simulation software; Bit error rate; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers; Q factor; RF signals; BER; Eye Height; Fiber Length; NRZ Coding; Q Factor; ROF; RZ Coding; Wavelength: Bit Rate;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems and Workshops (ICUMT), 2012 4th International Congress on

Conference_Location

St. Petersburg

ISSN

2157-0221

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2016-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICUMT.2012.6459744

Filename

6459744