Key technologies to enable terabit-scale digital radio-over-fiber systems

• With the approach of the 5G era, stringent requirements are imposed on the data transport solutions, including both of the supported transmission reach and the capacity. Radio-over-fiber technologies are considered to be promising candidates to cope with both aspects, owing to the low-loss and broad-bandwidth nature of the optical fibers. Meanwhile with such optical transport solutions, signals can be collected from the distributed remote radio sites and processed in a centralized manner. In this report, we target on the digital radio-over-fiber systems, and discuss about several key technologies, focusing on the aspects of coding and transmission, which could potentially enable terabit-scale data transport.

Subject headings

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Kommunikationssystem (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Communication Systems (hsv//eng)

Keyword

coding

Digital radio-over-fiber

fiber optics communications

modulation

radio frequency photonics

5G mobile communication systems

Optical fibers

Radio transmission

Radio-over-fiber

Broad bandwidths

Fiber optics communication

Key technologies

Optical transport

Radio-over-fiber technology

Stringent requirement

Digital radio

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

kon (subject category)