4 × 4 MIMO architecture supporting IFoF-based analog indoor distributed antenna system for 5G mobile communications
We demonstrate the analog indoor distributed antenna system (DAS) for 5G mobile communications that supports 4 × 4 multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) configuration. For this, we exploit a pair of intermediate frequency over fiber (IFoF)-based analog optical links, transporting 32 frequency alloca...
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Published in | Optics express Vol. 26; no. 22; pp. 28216 - 28227 |
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Main Authors | , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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United States
29.10.2018
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Summary: | We demonstrate the analog indoor distributed antenna system (DAS) for 5G mobile communications that supports 4 × 4 multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) configuration. For this, we exploit a pair of intermediate frequency over fiber (IFoF)-based analog optical links, transporting 32 frequency allocation (FA) 5G mobile signals (effectively ~4 GHz bandwidth). The analog optical link manifests its high fidelity in the measured characteristics: small gain variation (< ± 1 dB for the entire transmission bandwidth), low noise (<-136 dBm/Hz), and large dynamic range (spurious free dynamic range of >106 dB∙Hz
), subsequently providing superior error vector magnitude (EVM) performance (~2%) for a wide range of ambient temperatures (-20 ~60°C). Consequently, the IFoF-based 4 × 4 MIMO supporting analog indoor DAS is capable of providing record high peak throughput of 5.3 Gb/s for millimeter wave based 5G mobile communication system. |
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ISSN: | 1094-4087 1094-4087 |
DOI: | 10.1364/OE.26.028216 |