[HTML][HTML] Integrating optical and wireless techniques towards novel fronthaul and access architectures in a 5G NR framework

RM Borges, CH de Souza Lopes, ES Lima… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
The fifth-generation of mobile network (5G) and beyond requires a radio access network
(RAN) update in order to cope with the incoming increase of wireless data traffic and new …

Non-standalone 5G NR fiber-wireless system using FSO and fiber-optics fronthauls

CH de Souza Lopes, ES Lima, LAM Pereira… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
The fifth-generation of mobile networks (5G) claims for a radio access network (RAN) update
in order to support the enormous incoming wireless data traffic. In this context, we …

Integration of optical wireless communication with 5G systems

T Metin, M Emmelmann, M Corici… - 2020 IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Researches have been conducted on Optical Wireless Communication (OWC) technology
for a decade now, and because of the complexity, it naturally took a long way to become …

5G NR MIMO enabled multiband fiber wireless system using analog optical front haul

MU Hadi, S Ghaffar, G Murtaza - … Quality of Life Using ICT, IoT …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an unprecedented realization of fiber based analog radio over fiber (A-
RoF) along 2× 2 multi input multi output (MIMO) wireless system as a realistic front haul …

Emerging optical access network technologies for 5G wireless

X Liu, F Effenberger - Journal of Optical Communications and …, 2016 - opg.optica.org
With the advancement of radio access networks, more and more mobile data content needs
to be transported by optical networks. Mobile fronthaul is an important network segment that …

Implementation of a multiband 5G NR fiber-wireless system using analog radio over fiber technology

LAM Pereira, CHS Lopes, RM Borges, ES Lima… - Optics …, 2020 - Elsevier
This work reports the implementation of a multiband 5G new radio (NR) fiber-wireless (FiWi)
system, using analog radio over fiber (A-RoF) technology. Our approach employs a 12.5-km …

Toward an efficient C-RAN optical fronthaul for the future networks: A tutorial on technologies, requirements, challenges, and solutions

IA Alimi, AL Teixeira, PP Monteiro - … Communications Surveys & …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The exponential traffic growth, demand for high speed wireless data communications, as
well as incessant deployment of innovative wireless technologies, services, and …

[HTML][HTML] Results and achievements of the ALLIANCE project: New network solutions for 5G and beyond

D Careglio, S Spadaro, A Cabellos, JA Lazaro… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Leaving the current 4th generation of mobile communications behind, 5G will represent a
disruptive paradigm shift integrating 5G Radio Access Networks (RANs), ultra-high-capacity …

Why would 5G need optical wireless communications?

T Cogalan, H Haas - … on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the National Broadband Plan released by the Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) in 2010, it was predicted that with the ever increasing demand for data, the spectrum …

[HTML][HTML] D-RoF and A-RoF interfaces in an all-optical fronthaul of 5G mobile systems

Z Zakrzewski - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a solution for enabling the coexistence of digitized radio-over-fiber (D-
RoF) and analog radio-over-fiber (A-RoF) interfaces operating in the optical fronthaul of 5G …