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Radio over Fiber for an optimal 60 GHz

Home Area Network
Date: 2010-01-07
Authors / Contacts:
Name Company Address Phone email
2, avenue Pierre Marzin joffray.guillory@orange-
Joffray Guillory Orange Labs 22307 Lannion Cedex, France ftgroup.com
2, avenue Pierre Marzin sylvain.meyer@orange-
Sylvain Meyer Orange Labs 22307 Lannion Cedex, France ftgroup.com
2, avenue Pierre Marzin benoit.charbonnier@orange-
Benoît Charbonnier Orange Labs 22307 Lannion Cedex, France ftgroup.com
Keio Shinjuku Oiwake
Bldg.9F.3-1-13 Shinjuku thomas.derham@orange-
Thomas Derham Orange Labs Shinjuku-kuTokyo 160-0022 ftgroup.com
JAPAN
4, rue du clos courtel sandrine.roblot@orange-
Sandrine Roblot Orange Labs 35512 Cesson-Sevigne, France ftgroup.com

Submission Slide 1 J. Guillory, S. Meyer & B. Charbonnier, Orange Labs

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Contents

• Radio over Fiber in the Home Area Network

• An example of optical architecture: multipoint-to-multipoint

• Setup and results

• Using the radio MAC layer for driving the optical infrastructure

Submission Slide 2 J. Guillory, S. Meyer & B. Charbonnier, Orange Labs

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Radio over Fiber in the Home Area Network

• The number of connected devices in the home increases ,

• The rates necessary between each of them increase too.

• The ultimate goal in home network, and for a provider of telecommuni-

cations like Orange, is to satisfy the demand made by this new services
like remote backup, video conference, video on demand, voice over IP,
data exchange in high-definition …

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Radio over Fiber in the Home Area Network

• We need high rates in the whole home because the devices and our
home gateway are not necessary in the same room.

Computer
and NAS

Children’s
bedroom
bedroom
Parent’s

Laptop and Phone Garage

Living-room
Kitchen

Home
Television and Gateway
Games console

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Radio over Fiber in the Home Area Network

• The wireless connectivity is generally preferred for the final link to

the device (easy to use and very flexible).

• In the future, IEEE 802.11.ad will be the radio standard to transport

data at very high throughputs (above 1Gbps),
• But, this radio standard has a short range (less than 10m).

How can we enlarge the coverage of the radio signal ?

Submission Slide 5 J. Guillory, S. Meyer & B. Charbonnier, Orange Labs

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Radio over Fiber in the Home Area Network

Children’s
bedroom
bedroom
Parent’s

Garage

Living-room
Kitchen

Remote antenna : converted

electrical signal (radio) to
optical signal, and vice-versa

Two optical fibers (downlink and uplink).

We transport radio signals in their native
format (analogue) on an optical carrier

Submission Slide 6 J. Guillory, S. Meyer & B. Charbonnier, Orange Labs

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Radio over Fiber in the Home Area Network

• So, the Radio over Fiber system enlarges the coverage of the radio signal itself. It
consists in transporting the radio signal from wireless devices onto an optical
carrier for distribution over optical fibre to different remote antennas. The optical
link acts as an analogue repeater.

• Transporting the radio signals in their native format, provides the advantage of
remote antenna simplification and transparency to radio layer protocols.
Optical In
Photodiode

TX Direct modulation is
DC A
antenna simple and low cost.
DC Block

Bias Tee
The remote antenna has small
TEE RX
A
antenna
size, light weight and low power
consumption.
Laser RF Filter
Optical Out

Automatic Gain Control

Submission Slide 7 J. Guillory, S. Meyer & B. Charbonnier, Orange Labs
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Radio over Fiber in the Home Area Network

• Why optical fibers ?

• Only the fiber optic can enlarge the coverage of radio signal transparently.
• It offers a very high bandwidth and low attenuation, thus can transfer the
high rate of the radio over several hundred meters.
• It will be a natural extension of access networks (Fiber To The Home).
• It is the ideal candidate to provide long life-span local networks.

Submission Slide 8 J. Guillory, S. Meyer & B. Charbonnier, Orange Labs

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Radio over Fiber in the Home Area Network

• Besides, the Radio over Fiber optimizes the global spectral efficiency.

• Indeed, power is radiated only in the spot (room) where it is useful.

• We have a full control of the range of radio wave (no trouble of the
radio signals of neighbours, health and hacking concerns).

Submission Slide 9 J. Guillory, S. Meyer & B. Charbonnier, Orange Labs

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Contents

• Radio over Fiber in the Home Area Network

• An example of optical architecture: multipoint-to-multipoint

• Setup and results

• Using the MAC layer for driving the optical infrastructure

Submission Slide 10 J. Guillory, S. Meyer & B. Charbonnier, Orange Labs

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An example of optical architecture:
multipoint-to-multipoint

Two optical
fibers Power is radiated only in
the spot where it is useful
(Space) and when it is
Children’s necessary (Moment).
bedroom
bedroom
Parent’s

Garage
Living-room
Kitchen

Gateway
+ ONT
NxN Splitter

Fiber To The Home

Submission Slide 11 J. Guillory, S. Meyer & B. Charbonnier, Orange Labs

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An example of optical architecture:
multipoint-to-multipoint
Remote antenna without intelligence

RoF 1

RoF 2 RoF 1

RoF 2
Is equivalent to
RoF 3 RoF 3

RoF 4
RoF 4

NxN Gateway
Splitter + ONT
Wireless device with
radio chipset

Submission Slide 12 J. Guillory, S. Meyer & B. Charbonnier, Orange Labs

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An example of optical architecture:
multipoint-to-multipoint

• Main advantages / disadvantages :

• Self-sufficient system: the distribution of resources managed by the

radio MAC layer.
• No intelligence required: direct communication possible.
• Optical budget should allow the NxN optical splitter (16x16 = 12dB).
• Two optical fibers required per remote antenna.

Submission Slide 13 J. Guillory, S. Meyer & B. Charbonnier, Orange Labs

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Contents

• The Radio over Fiber in the Home Area Network

• An example of optical architecture: multipoint-to-multipoint

• Setup and results

• Using the radio MAC layer for driving the optical infrastructure

Submission Slide 14 J. Guillory, S. Meyer & B. Charbonnier, Orange Labs

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Setup and results

Children’s
bedroom
bedroom
Parent’s

Garage

Living-room
Kitchen

Gateway
+ ONT
Splitter

Optical splitter ( 8x8 = 9dB )

It behaves as an optical tunnel

Submission Slide 15 J. Guillory, S. Meyer & B. Charbonnier, Orange Labs

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Setup and results

What is the necessary Signal to Noise Ratio to have

when a device receive the radio signal ?

OFDM QPSK : 2 Gbps and BER of 10-11 → 6.5 dB.

OFDM 16QAM : 2 Gbps and BER of 10-11 → 13 dB.

SCBT : no data about the required SNR.

(ECMA 387 / 57-66GHz radio standard)

SNR at radio receiver versus distance on the first and

second hop in free space (Optical loss = 11 dB)
Simulation at f = 66GHz

Submission Slide 16 J. Guillory, S. Meyer & B. Charbonnier, Orange Labs

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Contents

• The Radio over Fiber in the Home Area Network

• An example of optical architecture: multipoint-to-multipoint

• Setup and results

• Using the radio MAC layer for driving the optical infrastructure

Submission Slide 17 J. Guillory, S. Meyer & B. Charbonnier, Orange Labs

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Using the radio MAC layer for driving the optical infrastructure

• The lasers that are turned-on without seeing radio data at the input, are
noise for the photodiodes that receive an optical signal from another laser
(copy of the ambient noise by adding the noise of the conversions).
• Interferences : beat between independent light sources.

Laser ON

Children’s
bedroom
Signal MAC monitoring
bedroom
Parent’s

Signal

Garage
Living-room
Kitchen

Noise
Gateway
+ ONT
Splitter

Noise
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Using the radio MAC layer for driving the optical infrastructure

• Bridge : MAC  Monitoring signal.

• Only one of the device (e.g. the gateway) demodulates the radio signal,
• Recovers useful data in the radio MAC layer to manage the optical
access (turning-on laser or photodiode),
• Sends instruction to remote antenna by a monitoring signal.

Submission Slide 19 J. Guillory, S. Meyer & B. Charbonnier, Orange Labs

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Conclusion

• We have shown the feasibility of a wireless network inside the home

with Radio over Fiber for extending the radio coverage.

• Then, the Radio over Fiber optimizes the global spectral efficiency.

• The optical architectures show good results, and need information from
radio MAC Layer to be managed.

Submission Slide 20 J. Guillory, S. Meyer & B. Charbonnier, Orange Labs

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Questions to the group

• What do you think about the concept of Radio over Fiber ?

• Do you think it is an interesting concept ?

• Do you think it is in the scope of 802.11ad standard ?

• Some comments ?

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Thank you

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References
[1] Ultra Broad Band Wireless Home Network based on 60GHz WPANs cells interconnected via RoF
M.Huchard, M.Weiss, A.Pizzinat, S.Meyer, P.Guignard, B.Charbonnier
Invited paper IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology

[2] Ultra Wide Band over fibre transparent architecture for high bit-rate home networks
A.Pizzinat, F.Payoux, B.Charbonnier, S.Meyer
Springer Annals of telecommunication Journal (Special Issue on Home Networking)

[3] RNRT/BILBAO project: first results on Ultra Wide Band over fiber
S.Paquelet, S.Mallegol, G.Froc, A.Bisiaux, A.Pizzinat, B.Charbonnier, N.Malhouroux, S.Meyer, F.Payoux, I.Siaud,
G.Salingue, D.Morche, H.Jacquinot, S.Bories, C.Algani, AL.Billabert, S.Mazer, JL.Polleux, C.Rumelhard, M.Terré,
C.Sillans, Y.Le Guennec, B.Cabon, M.Lourdiane, G.Maury
International UWB Workshop 2007, Grenoble, France.

[4] Ultra Wide Band Home Networks by Means of a Low Cost Radio-over-MultiMode-Fibre Transparent System
A.Pizzinat, I.Louriki, B.Charbonnier, S.Meyer, C.Sillans, H.Jaquinot, S.Bories, M.Terré, C.Algani, AL.Billabert, Y.Le
Guennec, P.Lombard, G.Froc
Network and Optical Communications 2008, Krems (Austria), 1-3 July 2008

[5] Optical fiber infrastructures for UWB access and FTTH

B.Cabon, Y.Le Guennec, P.Lombard, M.Lourdiane, JM.Duchamp, A.Pizzinat, I.Louriki, B.Charbonnier, F.Payoux,
S.Meyer, M.Terré, C.Algani, AL.Billabert, C.Sillans, H.Jaquinot, S.bories, G.Froc
ISIS workshop, Stokholm, June 2008

[6] Low Cost Transparent Radio-over-Fibre System for UWB Based Home Network
A.Pizzinat, I.Louriki, B.Charbonnier, F.Payoux, S.Meyer, M.Terré, C.Algani, AL.Billabert, C.Sillans, H.Jaquinot,
S.Bories, Y.Le Guennec, G.Froc
European Conference on Optical Communications 2008, Bruxelles 21-25 Sept. 2008

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Appendix

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An experimental setup and the results

3X Mini-Circuit ZX60-14012L-S+ HHPAV-331

Gunit = 12 dB G = 20 dB
LNA HLNAV-386 P1dB = 8 dBm P1dB = 15 dBm
G = 18 dB NFunit = 6 dB Vers HBUC15X-073 NF = 8
HBM15X-208 détecteur Insertion loss = 9 dB
NF = 5.5 dB
Insertion loss = 8.5 dB

/2 RoF
LNA X CAG1 CAG2 HPA HPA HPA X HPA

P = -6.5 dBm P = -5.25 dBm P = -14.25 dBm P = 5.75 dBm

-60.6 -42.6 -51.1 -45.1 P = -39.5 dBm P = -3.5 dBm
<P< <P< <P< <P<
-10.7 dBm 7.8 dBm -0.7 dBm -23.7 dBm

Optical loss = ~9 dB HGV54.5571815-I

HGV54.5551515-I

57 < FRF < 66 GHz 3 < FFI < 12 GHz 57 < FRF < 66 GHz

RoF link with FINISAR laser and photodiode

(TOSA HFE6X92-X61 and ROSA HFD6X80-418) :
GRoF = 1.25 dB / NF = 49 dB / Gopt = -2.5 dB

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An experimental setup and the results

SNR at RX input for input P1dB = 15 dBm

20

18 8x8 Optical
SNRmin 2Gbps
splitter loss
OFDM-16QAM
16

New results
14
SNR, dB

12

10 SNRmin 2Gbps
OFDM-QPSK New amplifier after the photodiode
8 (G = 12 dB / NF = 6 dB)
Photodiode in différentiel mode
6 10m + 10m + Balun
5m + 5m
4 10m + 5m
5m + 10m
2
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16
Optical loss, dB

SNR at radio receiver versus optical loss, and distance on

the first and second bond in free space.

Submission Slide 26 J. Guillory, S. Meyer & B. Charbonnier, Orange Labs