Performance analysis of IEEE 802.16e WiMAX Radio-over-fiber distributed antenna system

Author

Yee, Ming-Li ; Oma, Anthony Ng ; Sauer, Michael

Author_Institution

Sci. & Technol. Div., Corning Inc., Corning, NY, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

7-12 June 2009

Firstpage

197

Lastpage

200

Abstract

Interest in radio-over-fiber (RoF) networks has been gaining increasing popularity for RF distribution networks. This paper examines link transmission quality over RoF of the WiMax signal between the base station and RAU in both downlink and uplink instances experimentally. EVM results are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of a fiber link for RF signal distribution. Downlink EVM performance was measured to be better than 3.1% for a RF power range of between -3 dBm to 10 dBm over 5 km RoF. Uplink EVM with AGC was better than 3.1% for an RF input signal range between -70 dBm to -45 dBm over 5 km RoF.

Keywords

UHF antennas; WiMax; mobile radio; optical fibre networks; radio-over-fibre; IEEE 802.16 WiMax; RF distribution networks; distributed antenna system; downlink EVM performance; error vector magnitude; link transmission quality; radio-over-fiber; uplink EVM; uplink instances; Base stations; Costs; Downlink; Ethernet networks; Fiber lasers; Performance analysis; RF signals; Radio frequency; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; WiMAX; IEEE802.16; Radio over Fiber; WiMAX; fiber; performance; single mode fiber; system; wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 2009. MTT '09. IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2803-8

Electronic_ISBN

0149-645X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2009.5165666

Filename

5165666