Proposal analysis and basic experimental evaluation of MIMO radio over fiber relay system

The radio over fiber (RoF) relay scheme can contribute to solving the radio wave blind area problem and improving cell edge performance in 5G mobile communications. However, RoF relay system requires many pairs of optical fiber link or Tx/Rx unit in case of MIMO system. To reduce complexity and cost of RoF relay system, we propose a novel relay system using STBC (space-time block coding) and MRC (maximum rate combination) scheme. In this research, we demonstrate a basic experimental using WiMAX base station and show some simulation results.