Mobile Signal Transmission Research Articles

Atmospheric Laser Communication Technology Based on Detector Gain Factor Regulation Control

Space laser communication, with its strong anti-jamming capability, high transmission rate and good adaptability, offers hope for the establishment of 5G mobile networks in areas that are not conducive to the erection of cables, such as islands and remote land areas. Turbulent scintillation effect is one of the important factors affecting the performance of laser communication, which can lead to the increase of communication BER and even communication interruption. Based on the working principle of the photoelectric detector in atmospheric turbulence, an optical communication receiving system based on the detector gain factor regulation control is designed, which calculates the scintillation variance according to the received signal in real time, establishes the function conversion relationship between the scintillation variance and the gain factor, realizes the closed-loop regulation control of the detector gain factor, and improves the SNR of the receiving system. A ground-based 13km static laser communication experiment was set up to test the reception performance, and the test results show that the system reduces the communication BER by more than two orders of magnitude and can be kept at 1E-6 under medium to weak turbulence (discriminated by flash variance) at a communication rate of 2.5Gbps. The technology was applied to the test of laser 5G signal transmission between the airship and the ground, and for the first time, the mobile communication (access network) signal transmission with a downlink speed of 1.230Gbps and an uplink speed of 76.4Mbps is realized, which verified the performance of mobile signal transmission between the mobile base station and the fixed station on the ground.

Radio-on-radio-over-fiber: efficient fronthauling for small cells and moving cells

A combination of fiber and radio links would be attractive for efficient fronthauling to small cells and moving cells. However, achieving connectivity by using wired-wireless media converters significantly increases system complexity, power consumption, and latency. A seamless combination of fiber and radio links in which photonics-based technologies are used to generate and transmit radiowave signals is more suitable. In this article, we present an overview of fiber-radio link combination for mobile signal transmission. We propose an efficient solution for future mobile fronthauling based on the analog transmission of mobile signals over a bidirectional seamless system. We discuss the potential as well as the challenges and perspectives of the systems applied for mobile fronthauling in small-cell- and movingcell- based networks. We also present a proof-ofconcept demonstration of the transmission of mobile signals over the system. Satisfactory performance is obtained for different high-speed advanced signals. The transmission range over fiber links and the estimated range of the radio links are sufficiently long to facilitate the practical implementation of the system. The system is scalable to include new deployments of small cells and wireless services using wavelength-division and subcarrier multiplexing techniques. It can provide a high-speed, low-latency, and flexible solution for fronthauling in new emerging wireless systems such as 5G networks.

Experimental demonstration of large capacity WSDM optical access network with multicore fibers and advanced modulation formats.

Towards the next generation optical access network supporting large capacity data transmission to enormous number of users covering a wider area, we proposed a hybrid wavelength-space division multiplexing (WSDM) optical access network architecture utilizing multicore fibers with advanced modulation formats. As a proof of concept, we experimentally demonstrated a WSDM optical access network with duplex transmission using our developed and fabricated multicore (7-core) fibers with 58.7km distance. As a cost-effective modulation scheme for access network, the optical OFDM-QPSK signal has been intensity modulated on the downstream transmission in the optical line terminal (OLT) and it was directly detected in the optical network unit (ONU) after MCF transmission. 10 wavelengths with 25GHz channel spacing from an optical comb generator are employed and each wavelength is loaded with 5Gb/s OFDM-QPSK signal. After amplification, power splitting, and fan-in multiplexer, 10-wavelength downstream signal was injected into six outer layer cores simultaneously and the aggregation downstream capacity reaches 300 Gb/s. -16 dBm sensitivity has been achieved for 3.8 × 10-3 bit error ratio (BER) with 7% Forward Error Correction (FEC) limit for all wavelengths in every core. Upstream signal from ONU side has also been generated and the bidirectional transmission in the same core causes negligible performance degradation to the downstream signal. As a universal platform for wired/wireless data access, our proposed architecture provides additional dimension for high speed mobile signal transmission and we hence demonstrated an upstream delivery of 20Gb/s per wavelength with QPSK modulation formats using the inner core of MCF emulating a mobile backhaul service. The IQ modulated data was coherently detected in the OLT side. -19 dBm sensitivity has been achieved under the FEC limit and more than 18 dB power budget is guaranteed.