@inproceedings{abdelhamid_gonem_seamless_2024,

title = {Seamless Fiber-Wireless Access Network Convergence with Dynamic O-E-O Conversion-less Sub-Wavelength Switching and Tunable Photonic mmWave Generation},

author = {Omaro Fawzi Abdelhamid Gonem and Luis Vallejo and Jiaxiang He and Roger Philip Giddings and Wei Jin and Xingwen Yi and Md Saifuddin Faruk and Jianming Tang},

url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10809809},

doi = {10.1109/ACP/IPOC63121.2024.10809809},

issn = {2162-1098},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-11-01},

urldate = {2025-10-08},

booktitle = {2024 Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP) and International Conference on Information Photonics and Optical Communications (IPOC)},

pages = {1–4},

abstract = {In order to meet the diverse needs of different services and applications in the B5G era, seamless integration of fiber and wireless network segments of next-generation radio access networks (NG-RANs), with flexible/fine channel switching granularity and ultra-low latency, is vital for enabling dynamic and continuous flow of heterogenous signals of various characteristics across different network segments without optical-electrical-optical (O-E-O) conversions or digital signal processing (DSP) at intermediate nodes. To address these requirements cost-effectively, we experimentally demonstrate 3xl.333 Gbps flexible BBU-UE connections over 10 km standard single-mode fiber (SSMF) and adaptable millimeter-wave (mmWave) wireless reach up to 50 m, using free-running laser/envelope detection-based tunable mm Wave generation/detection, and soft-ROADM-enabled dynamic sub-wavelength-level channel switching. The proposed technique requires no O-E-O conversions or DSP at intermediate nodes and offers dynamic RRH-controllable mmWave transmission with large frequency tunability and adaptive wireless network coverage.},

note = {ISSN: 2162-1098},

keywords = {Adaptive systems, B5G, Digital signal processing, fiber-wireless converged access networks, free-running lasers, Millimeter wave communication, millimeter waves, Optical fiber networks, Optical fibers, Optical signal processing, Optical switches, optical switching, Photonics, reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM), Standards, Wireless networks},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}