Title :
Optical fronthaul of LTE-advanced MIMO by spatial multiplexing in multicore fiber
Author :
Morant, Maria ; Macho, Andres ; Llorente, Roberto
Author_Institution :
Nanophotonics Technol. Center, Univ. Politec. de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Abstract :
Optical wireless fronthaul of dual Mx2×2 MIMO LTE-A systems by radio-over-fiber spatial multiplexing is demonstrated over 125m 4-core fiber using 16QAM and 64QAM subcarrier mapping. 3GPP LTE MIMO algorithms in-place successfully mitigate core-to-core impairments.
Keywords :
3G mobile communication; Long Term Evolution; MIMO communication; optical modulation; quadrature amplitude modulation; radio-over-fibre; space division multiplexing; 16QAM subcarrier mapping; 3GPP LTE MIMO algorithms; 64QAM subcarrier mapping; core-to-core impairments; dual Mx2x2 MIMO LTE-A systems; multicore fiber; optical wireless fronthaul; radio-over-fiber spatial multiplexing; spatial multiplexing; Crosstalk; MIMO; Multicore processing; Optical crosstalk; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2015
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
