Title
5G wireless and wired convergence in a passive optical network using UF-OFDM and GFDM
Abstract
The provision of both wireless and wired services in the optical access domain will be an important function for future passive optical networks (PON). With the emergence of 5th generation (5G) mobile communications, a move toward a dense deployment of small cell antenna sites, in conjunction with a cloud radio access network (C-RAN) architecture, is foreseen. This type of network architecture greatly increases the requirement for high capacity mobile fronthaul and backhaul links. An efficient way of achieving such connectivity is to make use of wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) PON infrastructure where wireless and wired services may be converged for distribution. In this work, for the first time, the convergence of 5G wireless candidate waveforms with a single-carrier wired signal is demonstrated in a PON. Three bands of universally filtered orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (UF-OFDM) and generalized frequency division multiplexing (GFDM), are transmitted at an intermediate frequency in conjunction with a digital 10Gb/s pulse amplitude modulation (PAM-4) signal in the downlink direction. Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is also evaluated as a benchmark. Results show, for each waveform, how performance varies due to the 5G channel spacing - indicating UF-OFDM's superiority in terms of PON convergence. Successful transmission over 25km of fibre is also demonstrated for all waveforms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/ICCW.2017.7962688
2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
5G,Passive Optical Networks,Universally Filtered Multi-Carrier,Generalised Frequency Division Multiplexing,Wireless-Wired Convergence
Conference
abs/1703.01956
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2164-7038
978-1-5090-1526-9
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
6
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Browning, Colm114.75
Arman Farhang213114.01
Arsalan Saljoghei313.19
Nicola Marchetti419233.90
vidak vujicic544.12
Linda E. Doyle630434.70
Liam P. Barry72314.10