Toward an efficient C-RAN optical fronthaul for the future networks: A tutorial on technologies, requirements, challenges, and solutions

IA Alimi, AL Teixeira, PP Monteiro - … Communications Surveys & …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The exponential traffic growth, demand for high speed wireless data communications, as
well as incessant deployment of innovative wireless technologies, services, and …

Performance improvement and cost reduction techniques for radio over fiber communications

VA Thomas, M El-Hajjar, L Hanzo - … Communications Surveys & …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Advanced cost reduction and performance improvement techniques conceived for Radio
Over Fiber (ROF) communications are considered. ROF techniques are expected to form the …

Toward 6G internet of things and the convergence with RoF system

N Chen, M Okada - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Internet of Things (IoT) has been a promising communication paradigm that involves
sensors, microcontrollers, and transceivers for an efficient communication and computation …

RoF-based radio access network for 5G mobile communication systems in 28 GHz millimeter-wave

M Sung, J Kim, ES Kim, SH Cho, YJ Won… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this study, we report the successful demonstration of an intermediate-frequency-over-fiber
(IFoF)-based radio access network (RAN) for 28 GHz millimeter-wave (mmWave)-based 5G …

Characterizing optical fiber transmission matrices using metasurface reflector stacks for lensless imaging without distal access

GSD Gordon, M Gataric, AGCP Ramos, R Mouthaan… - Physical review X, 2019 - APS
The ability to retrieve image data through hair-thin optical fibers promises to open up new
applications in a range of fields, from biomedical imaging to industrial inspection …

Millimeter-wave radio over fiber optical upconversion techniques relying on link nonlinearity

VA Thomas, M El-Hajjar, L Hanzo - … Communications Surveys & …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A study of advanced upconversion techniques used in radio over fiber (ROF) is provided.
With the huge increase in both the number of wireless communication subscribers and the …

High capacity mode division multiplexing based MIMO enabled all-optical analog millimeter-wave over fiber fronthaul architecture for 5G and beyond

K Zeb, X Zhang, Z Lu - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ever-increasing proliferation of mobile users and new technologies, and the demands
for ubiquitous connectivity, high data capacity, faster data speed, low latency, and reliable …

Optical millimeter wave mode division multiplexing of LG and HG modes for OFDM Ro-FSO system

A Amphawan, S Chaudhary, V Chan - Optics Communications, 2019 - Elsevier
The scarcity of RF spectrum at lower frequencies has recently been addressed by millimeter
wave transmission in fiber-wireless and radio-over-free-space optics networks for more …

40 Gbps–80 GHz PSK-MDM based Ro-FSO transmission system

S Chaudhary, B Lin, X Tang, X Wei, Z Zhou… - Optical and Quantum …, 2018 - Springer
Bandwidth shortage of wireless carriers is a global issue that has further led to investigating
the use of millimeter wave (mm-wave) in broadband cellular communication infrastructure …

High-speed millimeter communication through radio-over-free-space-optics network by mode-division multiplexing

S Chaudhary, A Amphawan - Optical Engineering, 2017 - spiedigitallibrary.org
In an attempt to meet the goal of distributing millimeter-wave (mm-wave) signals, recent
years have witnessed significant relevance being given to combining radio frequency with …