Masuduzzaman Bakaul, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, and Christina Lim, “Multifunctional WDM optical interface for millimeter-wave fiber-radio antenna base station” published in IEEE Journ
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Design of hybrid multiplexer for WI-DWDM integrated access network
[Publication Ref: 8, 16, Section 1.6]
Experimental demonstration of hybrid wavelength-interleaved multiplexing
scheme incorporating 37.5 GHz RF, 2.5 GHz IF and BB signals for a DWDM
integrated access network, spaced at 12.5 GHz [Publication Ref: 8, 16,
Section 1.6]
Proposals of hybrid demultiplexing schemes for WI-DWDM integrated
access network [Publication Ref: 7, 22, Section 1.6]
Experimental demonstration of a hybrid wavelength-interleaved
demultiplexing scheme incorporating 37.5 GHz RF, 2.5 GHz IF and baseband
signals for a DWDM integrated access network, spaced at 12.5 GHz
[Publication Ref: 7, 22, Section 1.6]
1.6 Publications Originated from This Work
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
1 Masuduzzaman Bakaul, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, and Christina Lim,
“Multifunctional WDM optical interface for millimeter-wave fiber-radio
antenna base station” published in IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology
(JLT), 2005 [Ref: Vol 23, No 3, pp 1210-1218, 2005]
2 Masuduzzaman Bakaul, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, Christina Lim,
Dalma Novak, Rod B Waterhouse, “Efficient multiplexing scheme for
wavelength-interleaved DWDM millimeter-wave fiber-radio systems”
published in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters (PTL), 2005 [Ref: Vol 17,
No 12, pp 2718-2720, 2005]
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3 Masuduzzaman Bakaul, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, Christina Lim,
Dalma Novak, Rod B Waterhouse, “Performance characterization of single
as well as cascaded WDM optical interfaces in millimeter-wave fiber-radio
networks” published in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters (PTL), 2006
[Ref: Vol 18, No 1, pp 115-117, 2006]
4 Masuduzzaman Bakaul, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, Christina Lim,
Dalma Novak, Rod B Waterhouse, “Simultaneous Multiplexing and
Demultiplexing of Wavelength-Interleaved Channels in DWDM
Millimeter-Wave Fiber-Radio Networks” submitted to IEEE Journal of Lightwave
Technology (JLT)
5 Zhaohui Li, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, Masuduzzaman Bakaul, Yang
Jing Wen, Linghao Cheng, Jian Chen, Chao Lu, and Sheel Aditya,
“Performance of WDM Fiber-Radio Network Using Distributed Raman
Amplifier,” published in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters (PTL), 2006
[Ref: Vol 18, No 4, pp 553-555, 2006]
6 Masuduzzaman Bakaul, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, Christina Lim,
Dalma Novak, Rod B Waterhouse, “Investigation of Performance
Enhancement of WDM Optical Interfaces for Millimeter-Wave Fiber-Radio
Networks” submitted to IEEE Photonics Technology Letters (PTL)
7 Masuduzzaman Bakaul, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, Christina Lim,
Dalma Novak, Rod B Waterhouse, “Hybrid multiplexing and demultiplexing
technologies towards the integration of millimeter-wave fiber-radio systems
in DWDM Access Networks” submitted to IEEE Journal of Lightwave
Technology (JLT)
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8 Masuduzzaman Bakaul, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, Christina Lim,
Dalma Novak, Rod B Waterhouse, “Hybrid Multiplexing of Multiband
Optical Access Technologies Towards an Integrated DWDM Network”
submitted to IEEE Photonics Technology Letters (PTL)
9 Angulugaha Gamage Prasanna, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, Christina
Lim, Masuduzzaman Bakaul, Dalma Novak, Rod B Waterhouse, “Efficient
Transmission Scheme for AWG-based DWDM Millimeter-Wave
Fiber-Radio Systems” to be submitted to IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
(PTL)
CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS
10 Masuduzzaman Bakaul, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, and Christina Lim,
“Dispersion tolerant novel base station optical interface for future WDM
fibre-radio systems” presented at the Conference on Optical Internet Network
(COIN) / Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT),
Melbourne, Australia, July, 2003
11 Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, Christina Lim, Manik Attygalle, Dalma
Novak, Rod B Waterhouse, and Masuduzzaman Bakaul, "Recent progress in
fiber-wireless networks: Technologies and architectures", presented at the
International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN
2003), Bangalore, India, October, 2003 [Invited paper]
12 Masuduzzaman Bakaul, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, and Christina Lim,
“Experimental verification of cascadability of WDM optical interfaces for
Future DWDM Millimeter-wave fiber-radio base stations” presented at the
International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics (MWP 2004), Maine,
USA, October, 2004
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Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, “Extending transmission distance in
wavelength reused fiber-radio links with FBG filters,” presented at the
Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC/NFOEC2005), Anaheim,
USA, March, 2005
14 Masuduzzaman Bakaul, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, Christina Lim,
Dalma Novak, Rod B Waterhouse, “Simplified multiplexing scheme for
wavelength-interleaved DWDM millimeter-wave fiber-radio systems”
presented at the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC
2005) , Glasgow, Scotland, September, 2005
15 Masuduzzaman Bakaul, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, Christina Lim,
Dalma Novak, Rod B Waterhouse, “Simplified multiplexing and
demultiplexing scheme for wavelength-interleaved DWDM millimeter-wave
fiber-radio systems” presented at the International Topical Meeting on
Microwave Photonics (MWP 2005), Seoul, South Korea, October, 2005
16 Masuduzzaman Bakaul, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, Christina Lim,
Dalma Novak, Rod B Waterhouse, “Hybrid multiplexing towards the
integration of millimeter-wave fiber-radio systems in DWDM Access
Networks” presented at the IEEE Topical Meeting on Lasers and
Electro-Optics Society (LEOS 2005), Sydney, Australia, October, 2005 [2nd prize
winner in the best student paper award competition]
17 Zhaohui Li, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, Masuduzzaman Bakaul, Linghao
Cheng, Yang Jing Wen, Chao Lu, “Application of distributed Raman
amplifier for the performance improvement of WDM millimeter-wave
fiber-radio network” presented at the IEEE Topical Meeting on Lasers and
Electro-Optics Society (LEOS 2005), Sydney, Australia, October, 2005
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18 Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, Masuduzzaman Bakaul, Christina Lim,
Dalma Novak, Rod B Waterhouse, “ Fiber Wireless Networks” presented at
the SPIE Asia-Pacific Optical Communications Conference (APOC 2005),
Shanghai, China, November, 2005 [Invited paper]
19 Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, Masuduzzaman Bakaul, Christina Lim,
Manik Attygalle, Dalma Novak, Rod B Waterhouse, “Wavelength Division
Multiplexed Fiber-Radio Networks” presented at the Asia-Pacific Microwave
Photonics Conference (AP-MWP 2006), Tokyo, Japan, April, 2006 [Invited
paper]
20 Angulugaha Gamage Prasanna, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, Christina
Lim, Masuduzzaman Bakaul, Dalma Novak, Rod B Waterhouse,
“Wavelength reuse upstream transmission scheme for AWG-based DWDM
millimeter-wave fiber-radio systems” presented at the Asia-Pacific
Microwave Photonics Conference (AP-MWP 2006), Tokyo, Japan, April,
2006
21 Masuduzzaman Bakaul, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, Christina Lim,
Dalma Novak, Rod B Waterhouse, “Modified WDM Optical Interface for
Performance Enhancement of Millimetre-Wave Fibre-Radio Networks”
accepted in Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT
/AOS 2006) to be held in Melbourne, Australia, July, 2006
22 Masuduzzaman Bakaul, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, Christina Lim,
Dalma Novak, Rod B Waterhouse, “Hybrid demultiplexing towards the
integration of millimeter-wave fiber-radio systems in DWDM Access
Networks” submitted to the Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics (MWP
2006), Grenoble, France, October, 2006
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2.1 Introduction
Chapter 1 has outlined how millimetre-wave (mm-wave) fibre-radio systems are developed to meet the future bandwidth requirements for broadband wireless access (BWA) in ‘last mile’ communication A generic architecture of mm-wave fibre-radio network is shown in Fig 1.3 In these networks multiple remote antenna base stations (BSs), suitable for untethered connectivity for the BWA services, are directly interconnected to a central office (CO) via an optical fibre feeder network [1-4] Due
to the high propagation losses of mm-wave signals, the radio coverage of these BSs shrink to microcells and picocells, which implies the need for a large number of antenna BSs to cover a certain geographical area [4-12] Therefore, the BS architecture has to be simplified and cost effective, whereas, the fibre feeder network has to be able to support the large number of BSs required to service a certain geographical area This chapter presents a comprehensive review of the research in mm-wave fibre radio systems and the associated technologies, providing a motivation for the topics covered in the rest of the thesis
Section 2.2 presents a comprehensive review of the research towards the simplification of BS architectures The literature on spectrally efficient fibre feeder networks that support a large number of BSs required to service a certain geographical area is reviewed in Section 2.3 Also, the literature involving the
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network impairments in wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM mm-wave radio networks and the modulation depth enhancement of mm-wave fibre-radio links are summarised in Sections 2.4 and 2.5 respectively The literature towards the realisation of an integrated optical access network incorporating mm-wave fibre-radio systems are reviewed in Section 2.6
fibre-2.2 Base Station Architecture
As mentioned earlier, the successful deployment of mm-wave fibre-radio systems
is largely dependent on the development of simple, compact, light-weight and cost BS The possible strategy to realise such a BS is a highly centralised CO along with less-equipped BSs, in which optical as well as mm-wave components and equipment are expected to be shared with a large number of BSs [13] The centralised network arrangement allows to simplify the BSs to having transmitter and receiver with additional optoelectronic & electrooptic (O/E) interface to detect and transmit optical mm-wave signals [1,14] The introduction of WDM in fibre feeder network enable these systems to interconnect multiple BSs to the CO through a
low-O / E
O A D M
rf
O / E
O A D M
rf
Fig 2.1: Generic BS architecture incorporating 3 integrated interfaces: OADM interface adds and
drops the desired channels to and from the feeder network, O/E interface converts signals from optical-to-electrical and electrical-to-optical form and rf interface having RF signal processing and
conditioning circuits, diplexer and radiating antenna
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single fibre (both in the star-tree and ring/bus network configuration), where each of the BSs will be needed an optical-add-drop-multiplexed (OADM) interface to add and drop the desired channels to and from the feeder network [15-17] Fig 2.1 shows the generic BS architecture consisting of 3 integrated interfaces: the OADM interface adds and drops the desired channels to and from the feeder network; O/E interface, consisted of optical modulator, photodetector (PD) and uplink light-source, converts signals from optical-to-electrical and electrical-to-optical form; and radio-frequency (rf) interface, consisted of mm-wave radio-frequency (RF) signal processing circuits, diplexer and radiating antenna, does the required conditioning/modification on the
RF signals and before sending it to the next hop Among these 3 interfaces, the complexity of the rf interface is largely dependent on the data transport schemes that distributes the radio signal over fibre from the CO to the BSs, where by optimum selection of the data transport scheme, the complexity of the BSs can be greatly reduced The following section reviews the complexity of the BSs based on the data transport schemes currently proposed for the implementation of mm-wave fibre-radio systems
2.2.1 Data Transport Schemes
There are three possible data transportation methods, which have been considered
in distributing the radio signals over fibre from the CO to the BSs with their relative merits and demerits [18-20] These methods can be termed as baseband(BB)-over-fibre, intermediate frequency (IF)-over-fibre, and RF-over-fibre
In baseband-over-fibre scheme, signal will be transported over fibre as optically modulated BB signal and will be up/down converted at the BS, by which additional signal management in the optical domain can be avoided This scheme enables the use of matured, proven and industry driven digital and microwave technologies; in addition to minimum chromatic dispersion effect on the delivery of sub-Gb/s data stream over fibre [21-26], which enables distribution of mm-wave signal over longer distances without regeneration Also, this scheme has the potential to merge mm-wave fibre-radio systems to the internet protocol (IP) based gigabit ethernet (GbE), asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) etc access technologies, by which an integrated
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optical access network can be easily realised [27-28] However, those benefits are offered at the expense of a complicated BS architecture, as additional hardware and signal processing circuits are required at the BS to process the received and transmitted radio signals Fig 2.2 shows the generic BS architecture that enables BB-over-fibre transport scheme for mm-wave fibre-radio systems As shown in the Fig 2.2, the radio signal in the rf interface needs to pass through multistage up/down conversion and multiple radio channel enabling multiplexing and demultiplexing devices, in addition to the RF signal conditioning circuits, diplexer and radiating antenna, which make the BS complex, bulky and expensive In addition to the system complexity, the requirement of up and down conversion devices decreases the systems’ flexibility in reconfiguring the channel assignment scheme by centralised control and monitoring, since each of the remotely located local oscillators (LOs) in the BSs needs to be detuned separately [14, 21-24]
MIXER
Fig 2.2: Generic BS architecture that enables baseband-over-fibre transport scheme in mm-wave
fibre-radio system: the rf interface contains multistage up/down conversion as well as multiple radio channel enabling hardware, in addition to RF signal conditioning circuits, diplexer and
radiating antenna
In IF-over-fibre scheme, signal will be transported over fibre at IF and will be up/down converted to/from mm-wave signal at the BS This scheme also provides similar advantages of using matured, proven and industry driven digital and
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microwave technologies; while experiences lower chromatic dispersion effect on the delivery of sub-Gb/s data stream over fibre [29-30] Similar to BB-over-fibre scheme, those benefits also can be realised at the expense of a complicated BS architecture, as additional components and equipment, such as LO and mixer are needed at the BS to up/down convert the radio signals before it is radiated by the antenna or converted to optical signal by O/E interface The generic architecture of the BS in IF-over-fibre transport scheme can be seen from Fig 2.3 Like before, due
to having LOs and mixers, this scheme also is not flexible for centralised control and monitoring [1, 14, 31-32] However, this scheme is suitable for implementing multiple channel transmission by using subcarrier multiplexing (SCM), where different radio channels can be superimposed onto different subcarrier frequencies before the combined signal is modulated by an optical carrier and is transported over fibre [6, 15, 33-37] Moreover, the remote delivery of LO from the CO can eliminate the physical LO from the BS, by which the benefits of centralised network arrangement can be realised [38-44]
O / E
O A D M
rf
~
LO
MIXER
Fig 2.3: Generic BS architecture that enables IF-over-fibre transport scheme in mm-wave
fibre-radio system: the rf interface contains up and down conversion hardware, in addition to RF signal
conditioning circuits, diplexer and radiating antenna
In RF-over-fibre scheme, signal will be transported over fibre as optically modulated mm-wave RF signal, which eliminates all the up/down conversion as well
as multiple channel transmission hardware from the BS leading to a simple, compact,