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Radio Over Fiber Networks PDF
Radio Over Fiber Networks PDF
Radio Over Fiber Networks PDF
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Abstract
The predicted growth in mobile phone traffic and move
towards enhanced mobility will lead to a need for wireless
infrastructure that provides increased bandwidth per user
.future wireless networks will require an optical network to
provide antenna base station with sufficient bandwidth to
provide individual users with more bandwidth .
Fig. 1.1 Optical spectrum usage in a WDM fiber-radio
network
1. Introduction
Current second-generation wireless voice networks use carrier
frequencies of 1-2 GHz and user data rates of 10 kbps
for voice and SMS messages .Third- Generation or 3G
wireless networks can provide data rates varying from 100
kbps (in vehicles) to 2 Mbps indoors whilst operating at
similar RF (radio) frequencies. 3G offers the potential to
distribute images and provide other low-data rate services
such as maps, local information, timetables, etc. One of the
key factors in increasing data rates is to correspondingly
increase carrier frequencies, potentially into the millimeterwave range (30-300 GHz). While certain frequency bands
suffer from very high loss due to OH absorption, this high loss
allows very small cell-sizes to be used, re-using the same
frequency in non-adjacent cells(1)
A fiber- radio network is a hybrid network that uses an optical
network to deliver wireless data from a Central Office (CO) to
remote radio Base Stations (BSs) as shown in Figure 1.1.
Figure 1.1 shows that the CO provides the interface
between an external network(typically a Metropolitan Area
Network (MAN) or Local Area Network (LAN)) and a
wireless network in which multiple BSs provide wireless
coverage to Mobile Units (MUs). A fiber-radio network
differs from a traditional fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) access
network in that the transported data is at a wireless frequency
and not at baseband,
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