Experimental characterization of the radio over fiber aided twin-antenna spatial modulation downlink
Experimental characterization of the radio over fiber aided twin-antenna spatial modulation downlink
In this paper, we present the design and the experimental demonstration of a radio over fiber (RoF) network relying on state-of-the-art spatial modulation (SM), that activates one out of multiple antennas. We propose a novel RoF-aided SM encoding scheme, where the optical single side-band signal generated by a Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) is used for both the antenna selection and for the classic modulated symbol selection. The SM encoding is optically processed in a centralized fashion, aiming for the reduction of power consumption and for enabling cost-effective maintenance and management, which can be employed in the context of a cloud radio access network (C-RAN) and a small-cell front-haul. Furthermore, an experimental demonstration of the proposed system is discussed and analyzed, where a 20 km standard single mode fiber (SSMF) is used for transmission. In this experiment, a 2 Gbps transmission relying on two transmit and two receive antennas is achieved with less than 1 dB SNR degradation compared to those operating without RoF.
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Li, Yichuan
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Yang, Qianmei
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El-Hajjar, Mohammed
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1 May 2018
Li, Yichuan
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El-Hajjar, Mohammed
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Li, Yichuan, Yang, Qianmei, Hemadeh, Ibrahim, El-Hajjar, Mohammed, Chan, Chun-Kit and Hanzo, Lajos
(2018)
Experimental characterization of the radio over fiber aided twin-antenna spatial modulation downlink.
Optics Express, 26 (10), .
(doi:10.1364/OE.26.012432).
Abstract
In this paper, we present the design and the experimental demonstration of a radio over fiber (RoF) network relying on state-of-the-art spatial modulation (SM), that activates one out of multiple antennas. We propose a novel RoF-aided SM encoding scheme, where the optical single side-band signal generated by a Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) is used for both the antenna selection and for the classic modulated symbol selection. The SM encoding is optically processed in a centralized fashion, aiming for the reduction of power consumption and for enabling cost-effective maintenance and management, which can be employed in the context of a cloud radio access network (C-RAN) and a small-cell front-haul. Furthermore, an experimental demonstration of the proposed system is discussed and analyzed, where a 20 km standard single mode fiber (SSMF) is used for transmission. In this experiment, a 2 Gbps transmission relying on two transmit and two receive antennas is achieved with less than 1 dB SNR degradation compared to those operating without RoF.
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Accepted/In Press date: 27 March 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 1 May 2018
Published date: 1 May 2018
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Mohammed El-Hajjar
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