Design and deployment of optical x-haul for 5G, 6G, and beyond: progress and challenges

C Ranaweera, C Lim, Y Tao, S Edirisinghe… - Journal of Optical …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Sixth generation (6G) wireless technology, which is the next giant leap in the evolution of
wireless communication, has been gaining great interest from academia, industry, and the …

End-to-end real-time service provisioning over a SDN-controllable analog mmWave fiber-wireless 5G X-haul network

C Vagionas, R Maximidis, I Stratakos… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The current work presents the first experimental demonstration of real-time Ethernet (ETH)
trial services and 4K-Ultra High Definition (UHD) video application transmission over a 2λ …

Outdoor mm-wave 5G/6G transmission with adaptive analog beamforming and IFoF fronthaul

J Pérez Santacruz, E Meyer, RXF Budé, C Stan… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Adaptive analog beamforming is a key technology to enable spatial control of millimeter-
wave wireless signals radiated from phased array antennas (PAAs) which is essential to …

Photonic THz communications based on radio-over-fiber technology for 6G mobile network: Design and opportunity

M Sung, S Kim, ES Kim, SR Moon… - IEEE Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Abundant available spectral resources in terahertz (THz) bands enables opportunities to
develop next-generation mobile communications. However, devices with large operating …

On the 40 GHz remote versus local photonic generation for DML-based C-RAN optical fronthaul

L Vallejo, J Mora, DN Nguyen, J Bohata… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Local and remote photonic millimeter wave (mmW) signal generation schemes are
theoretically and experimentally evaluated in order to compare both approaches for practical …

Air-filled SIW remote antenna unit with true time delay optical beamforming for mmWave-over-fiber systems

IL de Paula, L Bogaert, O Caytan… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A low-complexity and efficient mmWave-over-fiber remote antenna unit (RAU) is proposed
for broadband transmission and wide-angle squint-free beam steering in the full [26.5–29.5] …

A 51 Gb/s Reconfigurable mmWave fiber-wireless C-RAN supporting 5G/6G MNO network sharing

R Maximidis, C Vagionas, G Kalfas… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The growing demand for ubiquitous broadband connectivity in 5G/6G Radio Access
Networks (RANs) has turned Centralized RAN (C-RAN) and reconfigurable Point-to …

Reconfigurable optical crosshaul architecture for 6G radio access networks

Y Tao, C Ranaweera, S Edirisinghe, C Lim… - Journal of Optical …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The radio access network (RAN) architecture is undergoing a significant evolution to support
the next-generation mobile networks and their emerging applications. To realize scalable …

Multi-IF-over-fiber transmission using a commercial TOSA for analog fronthaul networks aiming beyond 5G

S Ishimura, HY Kao, K Tanaka, K Nishimura… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
An IF-over-fiber (IFoF)-based analog transport technology for mobile fronthaul applications
has recently attracted significant attention. However, most previous studies have employed …

[HTML][HTML] Bidirectional ARoF fronthaul over multicore fiber for beyond 5G mm-wave communications

JP Santacruz, G Nazarikov, S Rommel… - Optics …, 2022 - Elsevier
Fifth-generation mobile networks (5G) is the established solution to satisfy the highly
demanding key performance indicators such as traffic volumes, bit-rate, latency, and power …