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Experimental demonstration of multi-Gbps multi sub-bands FBMC transmission in mm-wave radio over a fiber system

Parajuli, HN; Shams, H; Gonzalez, LG; Udvary, E; Renaud, C; Mitchell, JE; (2018) Experimental demonstration of multi-Gbps multi sub-bands FBMC transmission in mm-wave radio over a fiber system. Optics Express , 26 (6) pp. 7306-7312. 10.1364/OE.26.007306. Green open access

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Abstract

The filter bank multicarrier (FBMC) modulation format is considered as a potential candidate for future wireless 5G due to its feature of high suppression for out-of-band emissions, which allows combining multiple sub-bands with very narrow band-gaps, and hence increases the overall wireless transmission capacity. In this paper, we experimentally demonstrate the generation of multi sub-bands FBMC signals at millimeter-wave (mm-wave) for radio-over-fiber (RoF) systems. The designed multi sub-bands FBMC system consists of 5 sub-bands of 800 MHz with inter sub-band gaps of 781.25 kHz. The composite 5 sub-bands FBMC signal is generated with no band-gap between dc to the first sub-band to preserve the bandwidth of the system. Each FBMC sub-band consists of 1024 sub-carriers and is modulated with uncorrelated data sequences. The aggregate FBMC signal is carried optically by externally modulating a free running laser and is converted to millimeter waves (mm-waves) by photomixing with another free running laser at a frequency offset of 53 GHz. At the receiver, the received electrical mm-wave signal is down-converted to an intermediate frequency (IF) and then post-processed using digital signal processing (DSP) techniques. With the use of the simple recursive least square (RLS) equalizer in the DSP receiver, the achieved aggregate data rate is 8 Gbps and 12 Gbps for 16 quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM), and 64 QAM, respectively with a total bandwidth of 4.2 GHz. The system performance is evaluated by measuring error vector magnitude (EVM) and bit error rate (BER) calculations.

Type: Article
Title: Experimental demonstration of multi-Gbps multi sub-bands FBMC transmission in mm-wave radio over a fiber system
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1364/OE.26.007306
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.26.007306
Language: English
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Electronic and Electrical Eng
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10045305
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