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Comparison of Optical Transport Technologies for Centralized Radio Access Network Using Optical Ground Wire

Kensuke IKEDA, Christina LIM, Ampalavanapillai NIRMALATHAS, Chathurika RANAWEERA

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Communication networks for wide-scale distributed energy resources (DERs) including photovoltaics (PVs), wind, storage and battery systems and electric vehicles (EVs) will be indispensable in future power grids. In this paper, we compare optical fronthaul networks using existing optical ground wires (OPGWs) for centralized radio access network (C-RAN) architecture to realize cost effective wireless communication network expansion including low population area. We investigate the applicability of optical data transport technologies of physical layer split (PLS), analog radio-on-fiber (ARoF), and common public radio interface (CPRI). The deployment costs of them are comparatively analyzed. It was shown that physical layer split and analog radio-on-fiber with subcarrier multiplexing (SCM) result in lower cost than other technologies.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E103-B No.11 pp.1240-1248
Publication Date
2020/11/01
Publicized
2020/05/22
Online ISSN
1745-1345
DOI
10.1587/transcom.2019OBP0004
Type of Manuscript
Special Section PAPER (Joint Special Section on Opto-electronics and Communications for Future Optical Network)
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Authors

Kensuke IKEDA
  Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry
Christina LIM
  The University of Melbourne
Ampalavanapillai NIRMALATHAS
  The University of Melbourne
Chathurika RANAWEERA
  Deakin University

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