Real-time demonstration of ARoF fronthaul for high-bandwidth mm-Wave 5G NR signal transmission over multi-core fiber

Simon Rommel, Bruno Cimoli, Evangelos Grivas, Delphin Dodane, Alvaro Morales, Evangelos Pikasis, Jerome Bourderionnet, Gilles Feugnet, Juliana Barros Carvalho, Michail Katsikis, Konstantinos Ntontin, Dimitrios Kritharidis, Izabela Spaleniak, Paul Mitchell, Mykhaylo Dubov, Idelfonso Tafur Monroy

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Abstract

This paper presents an experimental demonstration of analog radio-over-fiber (ARoF) fronthaul for high-bandwidth, high-capacity millimeter wave (mm-wave) extended fifth generation mobile network (5G) new radio (NR) signals over an optical distribution network with optical space division multiplexing (SDM). ARoF is shown to alleviate fronthaul capacity bottlenecks, transporting an 800 MHz wide extended 5G NR signal and allowing to maintain full centralization in a centralized radio access network (C-RAN). The proposed ARoF fronthaul architecture features a transmitter that generates the ARoF signal and an optical signal carrying a reference local oscillator (LO) employed for downconversion at the remote unit (RU) from a single radio frequency (RF) reference at the central office (CO). An SDM based RAN with 7-core multi-core fiber (MCF) allows parallel transport of the uplink ARoF signal and reference LO at the same wavelength over separate cores. Transmission of an 800 MHz wide extended 5G NR fronthaul signal over 7-core MCF is shown with full real-time processing, achieving 1.4 Gbit/s with BER<3.8 × 10-3 and thus below the limit for hard-decision forward error correction (FEC) with 7 % overhead. Downconversion at the RU is performed electrically with the remote-fed LO provided by the CO.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2020 European Conference on Networks and Communications, EuCNC 2020
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages205-208
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-7281-4355-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2020
Event2020 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) - Croatia, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Duration: 15 Jun 202018 Jun 2020
https://www.eucnc.eu/

Conference

Conference2020 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC)
Abbreviated titleEuCNC 2020
Country/TerritoryCroatia
CityDubrovnik
Period15/06/2018/06/20
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Funding

This work was partially funded by the blueSPACE project (GA no. 762055) which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon2020 research and innovation programme.

FundersFunder number
European Union's Horizon 2020 - Research and Innovation Framework Programme
European Union's Horizon 2020 - Research and Innovation Framework Programme762055

    Keywords

    • 5G
    • Analog radio-over-fiber
    • Fronthaul
    • Millimeter wave
    • Space division multiplexing

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    • blueSPACE

      Tafur Monroy, I. (Project Manager), Rommel, S. (Project member), Patterson, D. (Project member), Cimoli, B. (Project member), Witteveen, F. (Project member), Sanders, R. (Project communication officer) & Barros Carvalho, J. (Project member)

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