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Basics of Microwave
Communication
1mm 1m
Microwave Microwave
communication oven
Radio music
Visible
radial ultraviolet Light infrared Microwave
X radial radiation ray
Microwave communication
Definition: a means of signal transmission using microwave as the signal carrier
Frequency: a part of microwave frequency are used for microwave communication
• Usually band: 3 GHz to 42 GHz
• E-band: 71 GHz to 86 GHz
Transmission mode: sight transmission
Microwave
Microwave's disadvantages Fibers' disadvantages
Short
Service is affected by climate and construction Long construction period,
terrains period high costs on laying fibers,
Limited frequency resources, especially on complex
requirements for frequency terrains
licenses Occupation of a large land
Smaller transmission capacities area
(compared with fibers)
RF unit Antenna
RF/IF and
baseband
Signal unit RF unit
processing
unit
IF cable
Multiplexer
Service and IDU
power cable
Waveguide or RF cable
IF cable (separate Mounted)
No feeder needed
(directly mounted)
IF
RF
IF amplification
Power amplification
Frequency
Up Converter
signal
Modulation
上
Cross-connection
Filtering
Baseband 调 调 signal Electromag
signal 制 制 变 放
频 netic wave
The signal conversion process in the
receive direction is reverse to that in
the transmit direction.
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Applications of Microwave Communication
Private
Networks
Railway and
expressway
Water conservancy
Telecom electricity
Petroleum, harbors
Operators Radio and television,
Backup and finance
supplementary
communication
resources of fiber links
Backhaul transmission
of base station services
in mobile
communication
Comprehensive service
transmission at the tail
of fixed networks
Medium-
distance/Short-
distance 18
transmission 23City short-distance
transmission
4 5 6 7 8 11 13 15 18 23 26 38 42GHz
The ITU-R recommendations specify the following common frequency bands for
microwave communication: 4/5/6/7/8/11/13/15/18/23/26/28/32/38/42 GHz.
Frequency band is the necessary information for selecting ODU and antenna.
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Frequency Arrangement Principles
Bandwidth of the frequency band
High/Low station: A high station and a low station must be used in pairs. The station with a higher
transmit frequency is a high station and the station with a lower transmit
frequency is a low station.
T/R spacing: difference between the transmit frequency and receive frequency of an ODU.
基带
Customer Channel
信号
services 256QAM modulation spacing
速率
数字基带信号 中频信号
Channel spacing
Services of a
56 Mbit/s
total rate of
400 Mbit/s
A greater channel spacing , a higher modulation scheme then a higher radio interface capacity
QAM A, φ Wc
PSK φ A, Wc
ASK A Wc , φ
PSK φ A, Wc
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Common Microwave Modulation Schemes
PSK
QPSK signal vectors (binary code)
PSK: Digital information is represented by the phase changes of
01 11 carriers.
The common PSK modulation schemes include 2PSK, 4PSK,
Reference and 8PSK. 4PSK is also QPSK.K
phase
00 10 The highest PSK modulation scheme is 8PSK. For more efficient
bandwidth utilization, QAM modulation schemes are adopted.
Tips: In quaternary code, one point represents four bits. That is, 1 MHz can carry 4 Mbit/s traffic. (Service is less than 4 Mbit/s due to
redundant bits.) The 16QAM modulation schemes is so called because the fourth power of two is 16. Do you understand why
256QAM is so called?
data
Voice
IF Module IF Module
Working principles
Data
Tx Path Rx Path Data Sink
Source
Change Quality
Command Indicator
AM Engine AM Engine
Quality Change
Indicator Command
0.6m
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1+1 SD: Anti-Fading Diversity Technology
The diversity technology is used to offset the effects of fading. To be specific, the system transmits the
same information over two or more paths and selects or combines the signals from the receiver.
f1
H f2
Application scenarios: Areas prone to fading, such as Application scenarios: Areas where the weather changes
rivers and lakes. frequently
Working principle: One antenna transmits signals and Working principle: Two frequencies are used to transmit
two antennas receive signals. There is a low probability the same service. There is a low probability that both
that both receive antennas are interfered simultaneously. frequencies are interfered simultaneously.
Note: The distance between two receive antennas is Note: Frequency spacing needs to be increased to reduce
determined by frequency bands. the correlation of different frequencies.
Space diversity is more cost-effective and efficient that frequency diversity. Therefore, SD
is used more often than FD.
FD applies when more channels are available.
Site 2 Ch5
Ch1 6km
Ch2
Site 4
Site 1 6 km
5 km Ch3
2 km
Site6
Ch7
Equipment-level Site 3 5km
equipment
1+1HSB,System control unit Ch8
6km Site 7
1+1Cross-connect and clock
unit Input power 1+1
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XPIC: Cross-Polarization Interference
Cancellation
The transmit end transmits two electromagnetic
Vertical waves whose polarization directions are
polarization orthogonal to each other. The receive end
cancels interference between the two
electromagnetic waves by means of the XPIC
function, thus retrieving the two original signals.
Horizontal The XPIC technology improves the utilization of
polarization frequency spectrum resources and thus doubles
the transmission capacity.
6 GHz channel configuration without the XPIC 6 GHz channel configuration with the XPIC
1+1 2+1
3+0 1+1 protection schemes include N+1 protection refers to the protection
1+1 HSB/FD/SD. The above configuration that N microwave working
figure shows 1+1 HSB/FD. channels in a microwave direction share
one microwave protection channel.
• Hop: One hop of radio link includes the equipment at the two ends, and the
equipment may be comprised of multiple IDUs, ODUs, and antennas.
• Microwave equipment is quoted and sold by hop.
• The tree, chain, and ring topologies of microwave networks are all comprised of hops.
• Networked microwave requires two hops of communal IDUs, which are called
combined stations. Combined stations help reduce the redundant IDUs.
1 Space loss
Transmissi
on distance
4 Transmit
5 Receive
Transmit end
power Receive end
sensitivity
• The microwave transmission distances ranges from 1 km to 100 km and the microwave transmission capacity reaches
the GE level.
• Major factors: space loss, antenna gain, line loss, transmit power, and receive sensitivity
Space loss is determined by the nature.
Antenna gain, feeder loss, transmit power, and receive sensitivity are determined by the microwave equipment.
• (Transmit power – Receive sensitivity + Antenna gain – Feeder loss) - Space loss > 0
Network design reserves 30 dB as fade margin.
• Frequency bands, weather, terrains, equipment gain, and feeder loss affect microwave transmission distances.
Space loss
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Natural Equipment
factors factors
Obstacle and Terrain
Straight line
Straight line
Impacts of
obstacles
Reflection Reflection
Category D
Large-area water
surface
The terrains whose
Increasing reflection coefficient
Category C
Plains reflection
Impacts of
terrains coefficient is lower
Category B are more suitable
Hills for microwave
transmission.
Category A
Mountains or cities with
dense buildings
• Rain, snow, and fog are the major weather factors that affect microwave transmission.
Raindrops or ice causes scattering loss of microwave signals.
• Rain has the greatest impact on microwave transmission.
Microwave signals at frequencies lower than 10 GHz can hardly be affected by rain.
Microwave signals at frequencies higher than 10 GHz can be affected by rain;
the higher the frequency, the greater the rain fading.
• Snow and fog cause loss of about 0.5 dB/km for microwave signals.
Microwave Transmission
Antenna gain Feeder loss
The greater the antenna gain, the The lower the feed line loss, the
longer the transmission distance. longer the transmission distance
Antenna gain
The lower the frequency band, the larger the antenna
diameter, and the higher the antenna gain.
Feeder loss
The lower the frequency band, the shorter the feeder, and
the lower the feeder loss.
Transmit power
The lower the frequency band and modulation scheme, the
higher the transmit power.
Receive sensitivity
The lower the frequency band and modulation scheme, the smaller the channel spacing, and the lower (better) the
receive sensitivity. With the given channel spacing, the smaller the service capacity, the better the receive sensitivity.
In the late 1960s, the first digital microwave system was built to improve the voice quality.
Digital microwave In 1988, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) internationalized Synchronous
TDM Optical Network (SONET) of U.S.A as Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) transport
network standards. The SDH microwave system developed rapidly in the 1990s.
In accordance with the LTE deployment, equipment vendors started the R&D
Digital microwave
efforts on E-BAND products in 2010. These products will be put into wide
E_BAND commercial use in 2012.
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