Integrated Wireless-pon access Network Architectures Milos Milosavljevic

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Chapter 3 Optical and Wireless PHY Integration
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Contents 
3.1 Optical/Wireless Research Initiatives .................................................. 39 
3.2 Layer-1 Integration .............................................................................. 45 
3.3 Deployment Scenarios ......................................................................... 47 
3.4 Simulation of Radio Signal Transmission over Fibre.......................... 49 
3.4.1 Effects of Fibre Chromatic Dispersion on IM-DD Link ........... 51 
3.4.2 OFDM Transmission Evaluation ............................................... 53 
3.5 VPI/MATLAB Co-Simulation Requirements ..................................... 56 
3.6 WiMAX Signal Generation and Detection .......................................... 57 
3.7 Summary .............................................................................................. 60 
References.................................................................................................. 62
This chapter outlines the research initiatives and possible deployment scenarios demonstrating 
optical/wireless integration. The benefits and potential limitations of applying RoF techniques 
over such architectures follow in order to establish the key impairments affecting the 
transmission of radio signals over the optical link. In particular the degradation due to chromatic 
dispersion on the intensity modulation with direct detection (IM-DD) link in the presence of 
OFDM propagation is simulated in Virtual Photonic Inc. (VPI). The chapter closes with the 
description of the VPI/MATLAB co-simulation requirements for the design of WiMAX 
transceivers.