Concurrent Inter-ONU Communications for Next Generation Mobile Fronthauls based on IMDD Hybrid SSB OFDM-DFMA PONs
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In PON-based mobile fronthauls, direct inter-ONU
communications without passing end-user traffic to the OLT offer
a promising solution for fulfilling thethe stringent latency and
bandwidth requirements of of 5G and beyond networks. In this
paper, with slight modifications to at the PON remote node, a
concurrent inter-ONU and upstream communication technique is
proposed and experimentally demonstrated in 101.6Gbit/s
multipoint-to-point hybrid SSB OFDM - digital filter multiple
access (DFMA) IMDD PONs over at a distance of 25km SSMFs.
Multiple gapless inter-ONU and upstream SSB signals are
aggregated by digital orthogonal filtering in each ONU
transmitter. A single FFT operation is applied for demultiplex
and demodulation in the OLT/ONU receivers. The results show
that for both the inter-ONU and upstream transmissions, the
optimum length of optimal digital filters is is 32, based on which
the power penalties due to the fiber transmission and ONU
channel interference are <1dB and <2dB, respectively. For the
inter-ONU communications, adaptive RF spectral assignments
can effectively mitigate the Rayleigh and Brillouin backscattering
effects and the upstream channel fading effect, thus giving rise
to >30% improvements in aggregated signal transmission
capacity. In addition, detailed experimental investigations are also
undertaken of the trade-off between differential ONU optical
launch power dynamic range and aggregated signal transmission
capacity. An approximately 1dB increase in ONU launch power
dynamic range is achievable by reducing the aggregated signal
transmission capacity by 5Gbit/s.
Keywords
- Amplitude modulation, Bandwidth, Digital filter multiple access (DFMA), Digital filters, OFDM, Optical network units, Passive optical networks, Radio frequency, intensity modulation and direct detection (IMDD), inter-ONU communications, passive optical networks (PONs)
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 7360-7369 |
Journal | Journal of Lightwave Technology |
Volume | 39 |
Issue number | 23 |
Early online date | 27 Sept 2021 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2021 |
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