Int5Gent paper | Reconfigurable Fiber Wireless fronthaul with A-RoF and D-RoF co-existence through a Si3N4 ROADM for Heterogeneous mmWave 5G C-RANs

Int5Gent paper “Reconfigurable Fiber Wireless fronthaul with A-RoF and D-RoF co-existence through a Si3N4 ROADM for Heterogeneous mmWave 5G C-RANs” is available online.

The paper is written by Eugenio Ruggeri, Christos Vagionas, Ronis Maximidis, George Kalfas, Dimosthenis Spasopoulos, Nikos Terzenidis, Ruud M. Oldenbeuving, Paul W. L. van Dijk, Chris G.H. Roeloffzen, Nikos Pleros and Amalia Miliou and it has been published in Journal of Lightwave Technology.

Towards enabling bandwidth-hungry 5G applications, a Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) mobile fronthaul architecture is experimentally presented supporting the coexistence of spectrally efficient analog transport formats with Digital Radio over Fiber transport schemes, combined with millimeter wave (mmWave) high-capacity wireless channels. Flexible transport network reconfiguration is proposed by means of a low-loss 1×4 Si3N4 Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (ROADM) on TriPleX platform, selectively dropping four FiWi mmWave fronthaul links to four different antenna location. Detailed investigations of the proposed system are reported, including frequency characterization, multi-stage EVM penalty study and analog/digital traffic coexistence PHY layer feasibility. Following, four 10 Gb/s multi-band 16- QAM WDM FiWi analog IFoF links are transmitted through 10km fiber and 1-m directional V-band antennas and flexibly reconfigured by a Si3N4 ROADM, achieving a record 40 Gb/s wavelength-routed fronthaul capacity for mmWave 5G, while simultaneously meeting multiple 5G Use Cases within 3GPP requirements.

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