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Real-Time FPGA Demonstration of Hybrid Bi-directional MMW and FSO Fronthaul Architecture

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate a converged hybrid bi-directional mobile fronthaul by integrating MMW and FSO links with real-time FPGA processing. We achieve long-term stability under practical 5G operation scenarios with EVM variations of <0.7% for 16-QAM.

Keywords:
Field-programmable gate array Computer science Architecture Quadrature amplitude modulation Time-division multiplexing Electronic engineering Embedded system Telecommunications Engineering Bit error rate Multiplexing Channel (broadcasting)

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Optical Wireless Communication Technologies
Physical Sciences →  Engineering →  Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Advanced Photonic Communication Systems
Physical Sciences →  Engineering →  Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Optical Network Technologies
Physical Sciences →  Engineering →  Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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