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Capacity and Error Performance Verification of Multi-Antenna Schemes in Radio-over-Fiber Distributed Antenna System

Aighobahi, Anthony, Gomes, Nathan J. (2016) Capacity and Error Performance Verification of Multi-Antenna Schemes in Radio-over-Fiber Distributed Antenna System. Journal of Lightwave Technology, 34 (20). pp. 4779-4785. ISSN 0733-8724. (doi:10.1109/JLT.2016.2565258) (KAR id:56155)

Abstract

A radio-over-fiber distributed antenna system permits larger physical separation between antennas in a wireless system’s infrastructure; this investigation verifies that improved performance – lower error rates and higher capacities – can thus be achieved. In this paper, specific single-input multiple-output (SIMO), multiple-input single-output (MISO) and multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) algorithms are compared in an experimental radio over fiber system, using user-defined processing functions for the signals. It is shown that significantly reduced symbol error rate (SER) and modestly increased capacity is achieved for a wireless 1x2 SIMO uplink using the maximal ratio combining (MRC) processing algorithm and 2x1 MISO downlink using the Alamouti space time block coding (STBC) scheme. Further, SER is reduced for a downlink 2x2 wireless MIMO using the zero-forcing algorithm while, most importantly, greatly increased capacity is achieved through the spatial multiplexing gain.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1109/JLT.2016.2565258
Subjects: T Technology
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Engineering and Digital Arts
Depositing User: Tina Thompson
Date Deposited: 27 Jun 2016 14:40 UTC
Last Modified: 09 Dec 2022 00:47 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/56155 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Aighobahi, Anthony.

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Gomes, Nathan J..

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