Volume 14, Number 3

Advanced Service Data Provisioning for Real-Time Management
of Ongoing Cellular Communication Networks

  Authors

Mikhail E. Belkin¹, Leonid Zhukov¹, Alexander S. Sigov¹ and Mikhail G. Vasil’ev², ¹Russian Technological University MIREA Russia ²Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the RAS, Russia

  Abstract

A new cost-efficient concept to realize real-time management and monitoring of quality-of-service metrics and other service data in 5G and beyond access network using a separate return channel based on a vertical cavity surface emitting laser in the optical injection locked mode that simultaneously operates as a laser source and a resonant cavity enhanced photodetector, is proposed and discussed. The feasibility and efficiency of the proposed approach are investigated and confirmed by a proof-of-concept experiment when optically transceiving high-speed digital signals with multi-position quadrature amplitude modulation of a radio-frequency carrier.

  Keywords

5G and beyond, RoF-based radio access network, real-time monitoring, QoS metrics, bimodal OILVCSEL.