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Radio-over-Fiber-supported Millimeter-wave Multiuser Transmission with Low-Complexity Antenna Units

Habib, Usman, Steeg, Matthias, Stoehr, Andreas, Gomes, Nathan J. (2018) Radio-over-Fiber-supported Millimeter-wave Multiuser Transmission with Low-Complexity Antenna Units. In: 2018 International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics (MWP) proceedings. . IEEE ISBN 978-1-5386-5226-8. (doi:10.1109/MWP.2018.8552904) (KAR id:69107)

Abstract

A system for serving a large number of users at millimeter-wave (mmW) frequencies using a single Radio Frequency (RF) chain is presented. A single Remote Antenna Unit (RAU) supported by Radio over-Fiber transport is used to transmit multiple 60GHz band signals to various users located at different spatial locations using the beamsteering characteristics of a Leaky Wave Antenna (LWA). Error Vector Magnitude analysis has been performed for each user signal up to a maximum of seven users per RF chain with wireless transmission over 2m. A performance comparison for different user-signal frequency spacings has been provided to understand the limitations of the system and results show that the proposed system design with the LWA performs better than systems using waveguide and horn

antenna transmitters. A realization to double the number of served users is also presented which shows that up to 10 users can be served using half region of the LWA, with each user transmitting

1Gb/s data rate, delivering an aggregate data rate of 10Gb/s.

Item Type: Conference or workshop item (Proceeding)
DOI/Identification number: 10.1109/MWP.2018.8552904
Uncontrolled keywords: Multiuser Transmission, Radio-over-Fiber, Millimeter-wave, Subcarrier Multiplexing SCM
Subjects: T Technology
T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering > TK5101 Telecommunications > TK5103.4 Broadband communication systems
T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering > TK5101 Telecommunications > TK5103.59 Optical communications
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Engineering and Digital Arts
Depositing User: Nathan Gomes
Date Deposited: 14 Sep 2018 15:32 UTC
Last Modified: 04 Mar 2024 16:34 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/69107 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Habib, Usman.

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Gomes, Nathan J..

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