Radio-over-fiber technologies for future mobile backhaul supporting cooperative base stations

Author

Yang, Yi ; Li, Fan ; Lim, Chong-U ; Nirmalathas, Ampalavanapillai

Author_Institution

Univ. of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia

fYear

2013

fDate

2-7 June 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We propose and investigate radio-over-fiber technologies for future mobile network incorporating base station cooperation schemes (CoMP). We experimentally demonstrate mobile backhauls for CoMP based on three previously proposed RoF technologies: traditional analog RF-over-fiber, digitized IF-over-fiber enabling OBSAI/CPRI and digitized RF-over-fiber based on bandpass sampling. Experimental results demonstrate that >2 dB gain can be achieved for cell edge users.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; band-pass filters; cooperative communication; mobile computing; radio-over-fibre; signal sampling; 3GPP terminology; CPRI; CoMP; OBSAI; RoF technologies; analog RF-over-fiber; bandpass sampling; cooperative base stations; digitized IF-over-fiber; digitized RF-over-fiber; future mobile backhaul; future mobile network; radio-over-fiber technologies; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Passive optical networks; Radio-over-fiber; base stations cooperation; mobile backhaul;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest (IMS), 2013 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-6177-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2013.6697698

Filename

6697698