RF over fiber distribution schemes for 60 GHz wireless personal area networks (WPANs)

Author

Waterhouse, Rodney ; Novak, Dalma ; Alemohammad, Milad ; Hobbs, Steven ; Lim, Christina ; Nirmalathas, Ampalavanapillai ; Nanzer, Jeffrey ; Callahan, Patrick ; Dennis, Michael ; Clark, Thomas

Author_Institution

Pharad LLC, Glen Burnie, MD, USA

fYear

2011

Firstpage

1714

Lastpage

1717

Abstract

In this paper fiber optic distribution schemes that can support 60 GHz wireless personal area networks (WPANs) are presented. In particular RF over fiber (RFoF) transport that can potentially reduce the complexity of the 60 GHz wireless access points (WAPs) and also enable these terminals to support the IEEE 802.15.3c WPAN standard as well as alternative 60 GHz wireless network protocols are focused on. Several dispersion tolerant RFoF 60 GHz distribution schemes and present some investigations of these architectures are discussed. It is shown that RFoF technology is very applicable to 60 GHz WPANs.

Keywords

personal area networks; protocols; radio-over-fibre; IEEE 802.15.3c WPAN standard; RF over fiber distribution scheme; WAP; frequency 60 GHz; wireless access points; wireless network protocols; wireless personal area networks; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers; Wireless communication; Wireless personal area networks; 60 GHz wireless communications; Dispersion tolerant transportation; Microwave Photonics; RF over fiber distribution;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference Proceedings (APMC), 2011 Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Melbourne, VIC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2034-5

Type

conf

Filename

6174100