Heterogeneous 60 GHz / 5 GHz broadband optical wireless systems supporting dynamic bandwidth allocation

Author

Miliou, A. ; Tsiokos, D. ; Mitsolidou, Charoula ; Kalfas, George ; Pleros, N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf., Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

fYear

2014

fDate

6-10 July 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

We present our recent work in developing and demonstrating a fully converged heterogeneous high-throughput 60 GHz / 5 GHz optical wireless transmission system that allows for dynamic bandwidth allocation towards supporting Cloud RAN architectures. In addition to modulation/demodulation of the baseband optical signals, this system is responsible for the conversion of the optical phase modulated low frequency sub-carriers signals into higher frequency wireless signals and their transmission into the air. Finally, its design is capable of supporting Medium-Transparent MAC protocol mechanisms allowing for a seamless interplay between optical and wireless.

Keywords

access protocols; bandwidth allocation; broadband networks; optical modulation; phase modulation; picocellular radio; radio access networks; radio-over-fibre; Cloud RAN architectures; baseband optical signals demodulation; baseband optical signals modulation; dynamic bandwidth allocation; frequency 5 GHz; frequency 60 GHz; frequency sub-carriers signals; heterogeneous 60 GHz / 5 GHz broadband optical wireless systems; medium-transparent MAC protocol mechanisms; optical phase modulation; Integrated optics; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Wireless communication; BPSK; Optical Frequency Multiplication (OFM); RoF-60 GHz; SCM; WDM;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2014 16th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Graz

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2014.6876455

Filename

6876455