Downlink Low-cost Radio-Optic Demonstrator for Distributed Antenna System: Pico-Cellular Applications

Author

Dayoub, I. ; Zaouche, A. ; Rouvaen, J.M. ; Lethien, C. ; Vilcot, J.P. ; Decoster, D.

Author_Institution

IEMN-UMR CNRS, Univ. de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambresis

Volume

2

fYear

0

fDate

0-0 0

Firstpage

2618

Lastpage

2622

Abstract

The integration of wireless and optical networks is a potential solution for increasing capacity and mobility as well as decreasing costs in the access network. Radio-over-fibre (RoF) or hybrid fibre radio (HFR) combines the capacity of optical networks with the flexibility and mobility of wireless access networks. We propose a downlink demonstrator for several radio standards over multimode fibre (MMF) using low-cost 850 nm VCSELs as optical sources and 50 mum MMF pigtailed photo-diodes. The system is dedicated to distributed antenna system (DAS) indoor wireless applications. To evaluate our system, error vector magnitude (EVM) measurements and eye-diagrams are performed

Keywords

antennas; mobility management (mobile radio); photodiodes; picocellular radio; radio access networks; radio-over-fibre; surface emitting lasers; telecommunication links; telecommunication standards; MMF pigtailed photodiodes; VCSEL; distributed antenna system indoor wireless applications; downlink low-cost radio-optic demonstrator; error vector magnitude measurements; hybrid fibre radio; multimode fibre; optical networks; pico-cellular applications; radio standards; radio-over-fibre; wireless access network flexibility; wireless access network mobility; 3G mobile communication; Costs; Downlink; GSM; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber testing; Optical fibers; Radio network; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information and Communication Technologies, 2006. ICTTA '06. 2nd

Conference_Location

Damascus

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9521-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTTA.2006.1684822

Filename

1684822