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 …

5G C-RAN with optical fronthaul: An analysis from a deployment perspective

C Ranaweera, E Wong, A Nirmalathas… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The fifth generation (5G) wireless technology is designed to provide significantly faster
Internet access, with lower latency, and ubiquitous mobile coverage compared to its …

[HTML][HTML] Towards 5G: A photonic based millimeter wave signal generation for applying in 5G access fronthaul

SE Alavi, MRK Soltanian, IS Amiri, M Khalily… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract 5G communications require a multi Gb/s data transmission in its small cells. For this
purpose millimeter wave (mm-wave) RF signals are the best solutions to be utilized for high …

Radio-over-fiber technology: Present and future

C Lim, A Nirmalathas - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Radio-over-fiber (RoF) technology is a hybrid technology which was first introduced to the
telecommunication arena in the eighties. The research topics have evolved over the last …

Spectral efficiency comparison between analog and digital RoF for mobile fronthaul transmission link

H Ji, C Sun, W Shieh - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile fronthaul requires an efficient transfer of radio signals between cell-site remote radio
heads (RRHs) and a centralized baseband unit (BBU) to satisfy diverse requirements on …

5G C-RAN architecture: A comparison of multiple optical fronthaul networks

C Ranaweera, E Wong, A Nirmalathas… - … on optical network …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The development of the fifth generation (5G) wireless technology is in progress to address
the increasing demands for high capacity, low latency, and ubiquitous mobile access …

Dual-wavelength fiber-laser-based transmission of millimeter waves for 5G-supported Radio-over-Fiber (RoF) links

HJ Kbashi, V Sharma, S Sergeyev - Optical Fiber Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
This work utilizes an experimentally designed erbium-doped fiber-based tunable dual-
wavelength laser (EDFL) to generate phase-stable millimeter waves over a wide-band of≈ …

The benefits of convergence

GK Chang, L Cheng - Philosophical Transactions of the …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A multi-tier radio access network (RAN) combining the strength of fibre-optic and radio
access technologies employing adaptive microwave photonics interfaces and radio-over …

Multidimensional OAM-based secure high-speed wireless communications

IB Djordjevic - IEEE Access, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To address key challenges for beyond 5G wireless technologies in a simultaneous manner,
we propose an orbital angular momentum (OAM)-based, secure, energy-efficient …

OAM-based hybrid free-space optical-terahertz multidimensional coded modulation and physical-layer security

IB Djordjevic - IEEE Photonics Journal, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To address capacity constraints and physical-layer security (PLS), defined in information-
theoretic sense, of both optical and wireless networks in a simultaneous manner, we …