Experimental Demonstration of MASH Based Sigma Delta Radio over Fiber System for 5G C-RAN Downlink

Muhammad Umair Hadi; Muhammad Umair Hadi; Nelofar Aslam; Rafaqat Ali; Kiran Khurshid; Pier Andrea Traverso; Giovanni Tartarini

doi:10.1515/joc-2019-0011

Experimental Demonstration of MASH Based Sigma Delta Radio over Fiber System for 5G C-RAN Downlink

Muhammad Umair Hadi, Muhammad Umair Hadi, Nelofar Aslam, Rafaqat Ali, Kiran Khurshid, Pier Andrea Traverso, Giovanni Tartarini

Faculty Of Computing, Eng. & Built Env.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

24 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Sigma Delta Radio over Fiber (S-DRoF) systems are looked upon as an enabling technology due to their advantages that comes due to combination of analog and digital radio over fiber (RoF) systems. In this paper, we have proposed and experimentally demonstrated a Multi-stAge-noise-SHaping (MASH) based Sigma Delta Modulated RoF system targeting 5G C-RAN (cloud/centralized radio access network) fronthaul applications. The evaluation has been done for LTE 20 MHz signal having 256 quadrature amplitude modulation with a carrier frequency of 3.5 GHz up to 5 Km of Standard Single Mode Fiber (SSMF). Furthermore, a comprehensive analysis of the design is explained followed by the experimental setup. The performance is reported in terms of error vector magnitude (EVM) and adjacent channel leakage ratio. It is concluded that S-DRoF substantiates the desired range of the 5G C-RAN fronthaul networks.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Optical Communications
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1515/joc-2019-0011
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 6 Apr 2019

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston 2019.

Keywords

ACLR
EVM
radio over fiber
sigma delta modulation

Access to Document

10.1515/joc-2019-0011

Cite this

@article{d6145d6d3fc84c21ae7017ca4bd80b94,

title = "Experimental Demonstration of MASH Based Sigma Delta Radio over Fiber System for 5G C-RAN Downlink",

abstract = "Sigma Delta Radio over Fiber (S-DRoF) systems are looked upon as an enabling technology due to their advantages that comes due to combination of analog and digital radio over fiber (RoF) systems. In this paper, we have proposed and experimentally demonstrated a Multi-stAge-noise-SHaping (MASH) based Sigma Delta Modulated RoF system targeting 5G C-RAN (cloud/centralized radio access network) fronthaul applications. The evaluation has been done for LTE 20 MHz signal having 256 quadrature amplitude modulation with a carrier frequency of 3.5 GHz up to 5 Km of Standard Single Mode Fiber (SSMF). Furthermore, a comprehensive analysis of the design is explained followed by the experimental setup. The performance is reported in terms of error vector magnitude (EVM) and adjacent channel leakage ratio. It is concluded that S-DRoF substantiates the desired range of the 5G C-RAN fronthaul networks.",

keywords = "ACLR, EVM, radio over fiber, sigma delta modulation",

author = "Hadi, {Muhammad Umair} and Hadi, {Muhammad Umair} and Nelofar Aslam and Rafaqat Ali and Kiran Khurshid and Traverso, {Pier Andrea} and Giovanni Tartarini",

note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston 2019.",

year = "2019",

month = apr,

day = "6",

doi = "10.1515/joc-2019-0011",

language = "English",

journal = "Journal of Optical Communications",

issn = "0173-4911",

publisher = "Walter de Gruyter GmbH",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Experimental Demonstration of MASH Based Sigma Delta Radio over Fiber System for 5G C-RAN Downlink

AU - Hadi, Muhammad Umair

AU - Aslam, Nelofar

AU - Ali, Rafaqat

AU - Khurshid, Kiran

AU - Traverso, Pier Andrea

AU - Tartarini, Giovanni

PY - 2019/4/6

Y1 - 2019/4/6

N2 - Sigma Delta Radio over Fiber (S-DRoF) systems are looked upon as an enabling technology due to their advantages that comes due to combination of analog and digital radio over fiber (RoF) systems. In this paper, we have proposed and experimentally demonstrated a Multi-stAge-noise-SHaping (MASH) based Sigma Delta Modulated RoF system targeting 5G C-RAN (cloud/centralized radio access network) fronthaul applications. The evaluation has been done for LTE 20 MHz signal having 256 quadrature amplitude modulation with a carrier frequency of 3.5 GHz up to 5 Km of Standard Single Mode Fiber (SSMF). Furthermore, a comprehensive analysis of the design is explained followed by the experimental setup. The performance is reported in terms of error vector magnitude (EVM) and adjacent channel leakage ratio. It is concluded that S-DRoF substantiates the desired range of the 5G C-RAN fronthaul networks.

AB - Sigma Delta Radio over Fiber (S-DRoF) systems are looked upon as an enabling technology due to their advantages that comes due to combination of analog and digital radio over fiber (RoF) systems. In this paper, we have proposed and experimentally demonstrated a Multi-stAge-noise-SHaping (MASH) based Sigma Delta Modulated RoF system targeting 5G C-RAN (cloud/centralized radio access network) fronthaul applications. The evaluation has been done for LTE 20 MHz signal having 256 quadrature amplitude modulation with a carrier frequency of 3.5 GHz up to 5 Km of Standard Single Mode Fiber (SSMF). Furthermore, a comprehensive analysis of the design is explained followed by the experimental setup. The performance is reported in terms of error vector magnitude (EVM) and adjacent channel leakage ratio. It is concluded that S-DRoF substantiates the desired range of the 5G C-RAN fronthaul networks.

KW - ACLR

KW - EVM

KW - radio over fiber

KW - sigma delta modulation

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85062209006&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1515/joc-2019-0011

DO - 10.1515/joc-2019-0011

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85062209006

SN - 0173-4911

JO - Journal of Optical Communications

JF - Journal of Optical Communications

ER -

Experimental Demonstration of MASH Based Sigma Delta Radio over Fiber System for 5G C-RAN Downlink

Abstract

Bibliographical note

Keywords

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this