Analyses of dual polarization WDM and SCM Radio over Fiber and Radio over FSO for C-RAN architecture

In this paper, the transmission schemes for Centralized Radio Access Network Architecture (C-RAN) based on combination of two technologies - Radio over Fiber (RoF) and Radio over FSO (RoFSO) are simulated and experimentally verified. The proposed setups are optimized for Long Term Evolution (LTE) with 20 MHz bandwidth using 64 Quadrature amplitude modulation in terms of Error Vector Magnitude (EVM). At the first, the measurements of Polarization Division Multiplexing using combination of RoF a RoFSO (PDM-RoF/FSO) is compared with simulation models. This is further extended by combination of PDM-Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM)-RoF/FSO and PDM-Subcarrier Multiplexing (SCM)-RoF/FSO, respectively. Results indicate better performance of PDM-SCM-RoF/FSO than WDM RoF/RoFSO in terms of launch power to reach EVM limit.

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