Seamless Fiber-Wireless Access Network Convergence with Dynamic O-E-O Conversion-less Sub-Wavelength Switching and Tunable Photonic mmWave Generation
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2024. Paper presented at Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP) /Information Photonics and Optical Communications (IPOC), Beijing, China.
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T1 - Seamless Fiber-Wireless Access Network Convergence with Dynamic O-E-O Conversion-less Sub-Wavelength Switching and Tunable Photonic mmWave Generation
AU - Gonem, Omaro
AU - Vallejo Castro, Luis
AU - He, Jiaxiang
AU - Giddings, Roger
AU - Jin, Wei
AU - Yi, Xingwen
AU - Faruk, Md Saifuddin
AU - Tang, Jianming
PY - 2024/11/15
Y1 - 2024/11/15
N2 - In order to meet the diverse needs of different services and applications in the B5G era, seamless integration of fiber and wireless network segments of next-generation radio access networks (NG-RANs), with flexible/fine channel switching granularity and ultra-low latency, is vital for enabling dynamic and continuous flow of heterogenous signals of various characteristics across different network segments without optical-electrical-optical (O-E-O) conversions or digital signal processing (DSP) at intermediate nodes. To address these requirements cost-effectively, we experimentally demonstrate 3×1.333 Gbps flexible BBU-UE connections over 10 km standard single-mode fiber (SSMF) and adaptable millimeter-wave (mmWave) wireless reach up to 50 m, using free-running laser/envelope detection-based tunable mmWave generation/detection, and soft-ROADM-enabled dynamic sub-wavelength-level channel switching. The proposed technique requires no O-E-O conversions or DSP at intermediate nodes and offers dynamic RRH-controllable mmWave transmission with large frequency tunability and adaptive wireless network coverage.
AB - In order to meet the diverse needs of different services and applications in the B5G era, seamless integration of fiber and wireless network segments of next-generation radio access networks (NG-RANs), with flexible/fine channel switching granularity and ultra-low latency, is vital for enabling dynamic and continuous flow of heterogenous signals of various characteristics across different network segments without optical-electrical-optical (O-E-O) conversions or digital signal processing (DSP) at intermediate nodes. To address these requirements cost-effectively, we experimentally demonstrate 3×1.333 Gbps flexible BBU-UE connections over 10 km standard single-mode fiber (SSMF) and adaptable millimeter-wave (mmWave) wireless reach up to 50 m, using free-running laser/envelope detection-based tunable mmWave generation/detection, and soft-ROADM-enabled dynamic sub-wavelength-level channel switching. The proposed technique requires no O-E-O conversions or DSP at intermediate nodes and offers dynamic RRH-controllable mmWave transmission with large frequency tunability and adaptive wireless network coverage.
KW - B5G
KW - optical switching
KW - fiber-wireless converged access networks
KW - reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM)
KW - millimeter waves
KW - free-running lasers
M3 - Paper
T2 - Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP) /Information Photonics and Optical Communications (IPOC)
Y2 - 2 November 2024 through 5 November 2024
ER -