THE UNIVERSITY OF DANANG

DANANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

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MODULATION TECHNIQUES AND CHANNEL MULTIPLEXING IN

FIBER-OPTIC COMMUNICATION
Topic: Performance evaluation of a SCM/DWDM optical transport
network for the application on RoF applied to the MobiFone operator

MS student : PHẠM QUỐC CƯỜNG

Class : K35DTCH
Instructor : PhD. NGUYỄN QUANG NHƯ QUỲNH

DaNang, June - 2018

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 PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF A SCM/DWDM OPTICAL TRANSPORT
NETWORK FOR THE APPLICATION ON ROF IN MOBIFONE OPERATOR

Abstract: Vietnam's 2nd largest mobile operator MobiFone has constructed its fist high-
capacity converged packet-optical backbone network using equipment from Ciena.The operator
has deployed a network spaning more than 1,400 km from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City. The
transport network currently has a capacity of 300 Gbps. The future generation of mobile
communication systems must be capable of serving high quality and broadband services even
highly dense populated area. The radio over fiber (RoF) is one of the promising systems which
can be used along the emerging wireless technologies such as smart antenna or multiple input
multiple output (MIMO) systems to meet these requirements. This paper addresses on
evaluating the impact of Optical Beat Interference (OBI) on the performance of Sub-Carrier
Multiplexed optical transmission system for the application on RoF.
Keywords: SCM, DWDM, RoF, OBI, backbone, SMF, SIR

I. Introduction:
After a trial run, Vietnamese network operators are ready for 4G, a necessary step for
Vietnam to advance toward 5G and prepare for the Internet of Things (IoT). In July 2016,
MobiFone, one of the three largest network operators, officially launched the north-south
backbone transmission line. It is equipped with modern technology, with the speed of up to 300
Gbps and a high security level. This was considered the best step for 4G deployment. The
master of the backbone transmission network allows MobiFone to provide broadband services
on a high-speed mobile platform to 25 cities and provinces.
The increase of bandwidth demand is linear with the supply of network services in many
telecom operators. The network is setup to provide the user the services such as video streaming,
data communication, tele-conference, ... that require large bandwidth in the traffic. Therefore,
the need of broadband consumption of a user has increased. In order to supply the need
of bandwidth, many researchers currently actively investigate and focus on three main
components; spectrum allocation of the frequency band, efficiency and increase of capacity
of the cell. Thus, the combination of SCM/WDM is expected to supply the demand of
increased bandwidth for the mobile communication.

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II. SCM/DWDM optical transmission systems for RoF application
2.1. SCM, DWDM and RoF techniques
Optical subcarrier multiplexing (SCM) is a scheme where multiple signals are
multiplexed in the radiofrequency (RF) domain and transmitted by a single wavelength. A
significant advantage of SCM is that microwave devices are more mature than optical devices;
the stability of a microwave oscillator; the frequency selectivity of a microwave filter are much
better than their optical counterparts and its ability to place different optical carriers together
closely. In addition, the low phase noise of RF oscillators makes coherent detection in the RF
domain easier than optical coherent detection, and advanced modulation formats can be applied
easily.
Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) is a multiplexer at the transmitter to join the
signals together, and a demultiplexer at the receiver to split them apart. In WDM each laser is
modulated at a given speed, and the total aggregate capacity being transmitted along the high-
bandwidth fiber is the sum total of the bit rates of the individual lasers. In this work, we
investigate various issues in this scenario in order to provide a cost-effective, high performance
solution for high speed data rates by the available bandwidth of the electrical and optical
components. Therefore, SCM must be used in conjunction with WDM to utilize any significant
fraction of the fiber bandwidth. The results is present higher bandwidth for long distance
communication system (SMF 150 km) by using SCM/WDM for RoF. Therefore, the efficiency
of bandwidth utilization of SCM is expected to be much better than conventional optical WDM.
Radio over Fiber [1] is an amalgamation of wireless along with fiber optic networks. In
Radio over Fiber technique, RF signals are distributed from a central location to Remote
antenna units. Wireless signals are channelized between a main station and various other base
stations in optical form. Base stations transfer data to mobile stations which are within the range
of that base station. In RoF optimal use of the transferring the signal is used by ensuring minimal
loss during the transfer of RF signals to the remote antenna units. The signal processing is
centralized in RoF, which offers a few advantages like ease of operation, ease in equipment
sharing. Low power radio access points ensure enhanced frequency reuse and better capacity
of the system. RoF technology connects radio access points to control stations. RoF
technology’s architecture consists of a network system which uses an antenna network, and at
these antenna’s – demultiplexing and signal processing is done by transferring the RF signals
to the control stations via a optical fiber.

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 Fig.1. SCM-DWDM system architecture
2.2. Evaluating performance of SCM
In the small scope of this paper, we concentrate on identifying how OBI limits the
number of subcarriers in SCM system and the performance limitation of SCM due to negative
effects of OBI.
2.2.1. Mathematical analysis of SCM with presence of OBI
There are M numbers of subcarriers in a given optical channel, having the same average
power. Each of these fields can be represented by:

ei  t   si  t  (1)

Where si is the intensity modulation by an RF signal of center frequency and f i can be

represented by:
si  1  m  t  cos  2 fit  (2)

in the equation (2) m  t  is NRZ data signal with bit period Tb .

The total field in an optical channel is the sum of M fields and can be represented as:

ein  t   i 1 ei  t 
M
(3)

The electric field at the output of the fiber is given by:

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 eo  t    ein  t  * h f  t   e  L (4)

with  is the fiber attenuation coefficient, L is the fiber length and h f  t  represents the fiber

impulse response.
The photodetector (PD) converts this field into an electrical signal proportional
to the field intensity. Photodetector output current is then given by:

i  t   R e0  t   n  t 
2
(5)

with R is the responsivity of the PD and n  t  represents the noise due to photodetector and

preamplifier. By expanding equation (5), signal component and cross component of

photodetector output can be expressed as:

is  t   i 1 e02  t 
M
(6)
 

ic  t   2i 1 l i 1 e i  t el  t 
M M
(7)
 
Here ic  t  contributes nonzero beat interference terms. The output of the PD is passed

through a pre amplifier followed by a band pass filter. If any of the spectral components of
ic  t  falls within the bandwidth of any of the M users BPF, it will cause OBI.

The frequency spectrum of the desired i th subcarrier channel signal component

can be obtained by taking fourier transform of is  t  as:
   jf  
   
is  i  f    i   t  e
(  jft )
 2  f     * sinc  f  f i   sinc  f  f i   e 2 

2
s i


(8)
where f i represents the required subcarrier frequency.

The power spectrum of the i th subscriber’s signal component can be expressed as:
  jf  
 2   
Ps  i  f   is  i  f    4 2  f     * sinc2   f  f i   sinc2   f  f i   e
2 2 
(9)
4
Using bandpass filter, output signal power of the required sub-carrier can be calculated
as:
B B
fi  fi 
2
 2 
2
Pi  sig    Psi   f  df  B  4  * sinc   f  fi  df
2
(10)
B
fi  fi 
2 2

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where B is the specified bandwidth of the subcarrier or bandwidth of the BPF. Here
sinc2   f  fi  ,   f  terms fall outside the range of integration.

Similarly, the frequency spectrum of the composite cross component can be expressed
as:

ic  i  f    i   t  e
ci
 jft
(11)


The power spectrum of the composite cross component can be expressed as:

Pc  i  f   ic  i  f  
2
(12)

The cross component present in the required bandwidth B is:

B
fi 
2
Pi  cross    Pci   f  df
B
fi 
2

(13)
Pi  cross  is the source of the OBI

Pi  sig 
SNR  (14)
Pi  cross 

BER  0.5erfc  2  SNR 

(15)
2.2.2. Simulation results and comments
A theoretical performance analysis is presented for a SCM optical transmission system
in presence of Optical Beat Interference (OBI) which occurs during the photo detection
process for nonreturn to zero (NRZ) line coding. A multiuser SCM system for a suitable
bandwidth is simulated Matlab/Simulink and in this investigation allocated bandwidth for
each user was 200 KHz with carrier separation 200 KHz. The modulated RF carriers in SCM
system then intensity modulate each optical carrier in WDM systems. The comparative
representation of SNR versus number of channels/subcarriers with NRZ coding has been
plotted.

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 Fig. 2 - Plot of OBI versus channel number for Pinput=1dB, 5dB, 10dB and 20dB
Comments: Fig. 2 shows the plot of OBI vs number of channels for varying input power,
which is 1 dB, 5dB, 10 dB and 20 dB, respectively. It is seen that with the increase of number
of channels the optical beat interference also increases. With the increase of input power
the OBI also increases for same number of channels.

Fig. 3 - Plot of Signal to Interference Ratio (SIR) versus channel number for Pinput=1dB, 10dB
and 20dB

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 Comments: Fig. 3 shows the plot of SIR vs number of channels for varying input power,
which is 1 dB, 10 dB and 20 dB, respectively. It can be observed that with the increase of
number of channels the signal to interference ratio also decreases. With the increase of input
power the SIR also decreases for same number of channels.

Fig. 4 - Plot of BER versus channel number for Pinput=1dB, 5dB, 10dB and 20dB
Comments: Fig. 4 shows the plot of bit error rate versus number of channels for varying
input power, which is 1 dB, 10 dB and 20 dB. It is seen that with the increase of number of
channels the bit error rate also increases nonlinearly. With the increase of input power the BER
also increases for same number of channels.

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 ANNEX
Matlab code:
clc
clear all
close all

p=[1 5 10 20];
snr1=[27.78 22.40 19.44 15.23 13.60 11.04 8.53 6.61 5.25 4.86];
snr10=[25.36 20.60 17.87 14.46 12.60 10.26 7.83 6.29 5.10 4.64];
snr20=[22.9497 18.7589 16.2029 13.2505 11.5074 9.5336 7.052 5.7121 5.0435
4.2542];
channel=[11 21 29 41 47 57 71 83 94 107];
BER1=[2.10E-23 1.93E-13 4.53E-10 1.79E-07 6.09E-06 7.95E-05 2.68E-04 0.0017
0.0019 0.0021];
BER5=[5.55E-21 1.75E-12 1.70E-09 1.67E-06 9.57E-06 5.65E-05 3.30E-04 0.0018
0.0024 0.004];
BER10=[3.64E-18 2.90E-11 1.10E-08 1.14E-05 8.81E-05 3.54E-04 9.42E-04 0.004
0.0054 0.003];
BER20=[3.31E-14 1.95E-09 7.79E-07 7.96E-05 5.75E-04 1.12E-03 5.38E-03
0.0057 0.0043 0.0039];
OBI1=[-40.63 -35.24 -32.29 -28.07 -26.47 -23.89 -21.41 -19.44 -18.24 -
17.54];
OBI5=[-25.63 -20.53 -17.69 -14.13 -12.06 -9.93 -8.06 -5.39 -4.26 -3.56];
OBI10=[-18.21 -13.44 -10.70 -7.28 -5.42 -4.06 -1.64 0.88 1.77 2.43];
OBI20=[-9.77 -5.55 -2.98 1.23 2.7 3.75 5.44 7.50 7.81 8.52];
ber11=[2.10E-23 5.55E-21 3.64E-18 3.31E-14];
ber21=[1.93E-13 1.75E-12 2.90E-11 1.95E-09];

figure(1);
hold on
plot(channel,OBI20);
title('OBI versus the number of channels');
xlabel('Channel (Number)');
ylabel('OBI (dB)');
axis([10 108 -45 10])

grid on

figure(2)
plot(channel,snr1);
hold on
plot(channel,snr10);
hold on
plot(channel,snr20);
title('SIR versus the number of channels');
xlabel('Channels (Number)');
ylabel('SIR (dB)');
%axis([889 925 0 2])
grid on
figure(3)
semilogy(channel,BER1);
hold on
semilogy(channel,BER5);
hold on
semilogy(channel,BER10);
hold on
semilogy(channel,BER20);
title('The number of channels versus BER');
xlabel('Channels (Number)');

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ber29=[4.53E-10 1.70E-09 1.10E-08 7.79E-07];
ber41=[1.79E-07 1.67E-06 1.14E-05 7.96E-05];
ber47=[6.09E-06 9.57E-06 8.81E-05 5.75E-04];
ber57=[7.95E-05 5.65E-05 3.54E-04 1.12E-03];
ber71=[2.68E-04 3.30E-04 9.42E-04 5.38E-03];
ber83=[0.0017 0.00180 0.004 0.0057];
ber94=[0.0019 0.0024 0.0054 0.0043];
ber107=[0.0021 0.004 0.003 0.0039];
figure(1)
plot(channel,OBI1);
hold on
plot(channel,OBI5);
hold on
plot(channel,OBI10);
ylabel('BER ');
%axis([889 925 0 2])
grid on
figure(4)
semilogy(p,ber11);
hold on
semilogy(p,ber21);
hold on
semilogy(p,ber29);
hold on
semilogy(p,ber41);
hold on
semilogy(p,ber47);
hold on
semilogy(p,ber57);
hold on
semilogy(p,ber71);
hold on
semilogy(p,ber83);
hold on
semilogy(p,ber94);
hold on
semilogy(p,ber107);
title('The number of channels versus BER');
xlabel('Channels (Number)');
ylabel('BER ');
%axis([889 925 0 2])
grid on

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