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

doi:10.1109/EuCNC48522.2020.9200921

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 language	English
Title of host publication	2020 European Conference on Networks and Communications, EuCNC 2020
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages	205-208
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-7281-4355-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCNC48522.2020.9200921
Publication status	Published - Jun 2020
Event	2020 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) - Croatia, Dubrovnik, Croatia Duration: 15 Jun 2020 → 18 Jun 2020 https://www.eucnc.eu/

Conference

Conference	2020 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC)
Abbreviated title	EuCNC 2020
Country/Territory	Croatia
City	Dubrovnik
Period	15/06/20 → 18/06/20
Internet address	https://www.eucnc.eu/

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.

Funders	Funder number
European Union's Horizon 2020 - Research and Innovation Framework Programme
European Union's Horizon 2020 - Research and Innovation Framework Programme	762055

Keywords

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

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Rommel, S., Cimoli, B., Grivas, E., Dodane, D., Morales, A., Pikasis, E., Bourderionnet, J., Feugnet, G., Barros Carvalho, J., Katsikis, M., Ntontin, K., Kritharidis, D., Spaleniak, I., Mitchell, P., Dubov, M., & Monroy, I. T. (2020). Real-time demonstration of ARoF fronthaul for high-bandwidth mm-Wave 5G NR signal transmission over multi-core fiber. In 2020 European Conference on Networks and Communications, EuCNC 2020 (pp. 205-208). Article 9200921 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCNC48522.2020.9200921

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2020 European Conference on Networks and Communications, EuCNC 2020. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2020. p. 205-208 9200921.

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