Experimental Validation of Hybrid WDM/SDM Signal Delivery for Mobile Fronthaul over PONs using SDN-Enabled Sliceable Bitrate Variable Transceivers

Authors :: Josep M. Fabrega
F. Javier Vilchez
Salvador Sales
Laia Nadal
Ramon Casellas
Michela Svaluto Moreolo
Ricard Vilalta
Raul Munoz
Ricardo Martinez
Ivana Gasulla
José Capmany
Source :: 2018 20th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), ICTON
Publication Year :: 2018
Publisher :: Zenodo, 2018.
Abstract: We demonstrate combined WDM/SDM delivery of mobile fronthaul in PONs, employing SDN-enabled S-BVTs based on adaptive multicarrier modulation. Experiments show successful BBU-RRU connectivity on several deploying strategies while coping with capacities beyond 50Gb/s per flow.

Subjects :: Computer science
02 engineering and technology
Experimental validation
Signal
Passive optical network
Fronthaul
Variable (computer science)
020210 optoelectronics & photonics
Computer architecture
Modulation
Wavelength-division multiplexing
optical OFDM
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Transceiver
space division multiplexing
wavelength division multiplexing
Passive optical networks
optical fronthaul

Language :: English
ISBN :: 978-1-5386-6605-0
ISBNs :: 9781538666050
Database :: OpenAIRE
Journal :: 2018 20th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), ICTON
Accession number :: edsair.doi.dedup.....b2b713882467b7bd010ade86e31569a9

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