Integrated Wireless-pon access Network Architectures Milos Milosavljevic

Chapter 6 Multi-Wavelength WiMAX-PONs with Overlapping Cells 
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Chapter 7 Experimental Investigation of WiMAX Transmission over Multi-Wavelength PONs 
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Contents 
7.1 Network Architecture ........................................................................ 137 
7.2 Experimental Setup ............................................................................ 139 
7.2.1 Radio Signal Generation .......................................................... 139 
7.2.2 WiMAX over PON Link Implementation ............................... 141 
7.3 Routing Performance Experimental Results ...................................... 144 
7.4 Summary ............................................................................................ 149 
References................................................................................................ 150
This chapter presents the network implementations presented in this thesis by experimentally 
demonstrating the application of wireless/wireline grooming across the architectures described 
in chapters 5 and 6. The OLT and ONU/BS sub-systems were widely implemented by readily-
available Aeroflex PXI WiMAX transceivers, terminating either side the multi-wavelength, 
splitter-PON links. Performance evaluation criteria drawn to validate the experimental set-up 
include the EVM dependency of the WiMAX channels with respect to the MZM RF drive 
power in downstream, the equivalent EVM figure in upstream in view of the direct VCSEL 
modulation, and the BER characteristics drawn for extended fibre lengths and split ratios 
without any dispersion compensation techniques.