Performance evaluation of radio over fiber system at 60 GHz for outdoor and indoor environments

Author

Rebhi, Sarra ; Barrak, Rim ; Menif, Mourad ; El Moussati, Ali

Author_Institution

Higher Sch. of Commun. of Tunis, Univ. of Carthage, Ariana, Tunisia

fYear

2014

fDate

14-16 April 2014

Firstpage

1418

Lastpage

1421

Abstract

Providing high data rates and wide bandwidth applications are the most important challenges that mobile systems and radio networks are trying to accomplish. Radio over Fiber-RoF systems is a promoting research field since it benefits of Passive Optical Network (PON) advantages and unlicensed large bands in 60 GHz millimeter band (57-64GHz). In this study, we consider a complete RoF system from the central office to the end-user passing by the base station and we study the impact of propagation environment on the whole system performance and radio coverage by considering different scenarios for multipath propagation (Line of Sight-LOS, Non Line of Sight-NLOF). In particular, we have been interested in Rayleigh and Rice propagation models for both indoor and outdoor environments. Optisystem/ADS Co-simulation has been investigated to simulate RoF network coverage for indoor and outdoor environments while considering high data rates.

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; indoor radio; millimetre wave propagation; mobile radio; passive optical networks; performance evaluation; radio networks; radio-over-fibre; PON; Rayleigh propagation models; RoF system; base station; central office; end-user; frequency 60 GHz; high data rates; indoor environment; mobile systems; multipath propagation; optisystem-ADS cosimulation; outdoor environment; passive optical network; performance evaluation; propagation environment; radio coverage; radio networks; radio over fiber system; rice propagation models; wide bandwidth applications; Fading; Indoor environments; Nonlinear optics; Optical reflection; Passive optical networks; Radio link; LoS; NLoS; Rayleigh model; Rice model; RoF system; indoor and outdoor environnements;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Computing and Systems (ICMCS), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Marrakech

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3823-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMCS.2014.6911196

Filename

6911196