10-Gbaud OOK / PAM4 Digital Mobile Fronthaul based on One-Bit / Two-bit Δ-Σ Modulation Supporting Carrier Aggregation of 32 LTE-A Signals with up to 256 and 1024QAM

Conference: ECOC 2016 - 42nd European Conference on Optical Communication
09/18/2016 - 09/22/2016 at Düsseldorf, Deutschland

Proceedings: ECOC 2016

Pages: 3Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Wang, Jing; Ying, Kai; Zhang, Junwen; Lu, Feng; Xu, Mu; Cheng, Lin; Ma, Xiaoli; Chang, Gee-Kung (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30308, USA)
Yu, Zhenhua (Texas Instruments, Inc., Dallas, TX, 75243, USA)

Abstract:
10-Gbaud OOK/PAM4 digital mobile fronthaul was experimentally demonstrated by using onebit/ two-bit δ-σ modulation supporting 32 LTE-A carrier aggregation for 3GPP release 13 with up to 256 and 1024QAM. Compared with CPRI, the mobile fronthaul capacity is increased by 4 times.