Abstract
Home area networks will have to deal with the future
multigigabit wireless systems that are emerging or are
under
development.
These millimeter-wave radio systems achieve data rates
up to several Gb/s per channel, but over short distance.
So, to expand the radio coverage, we propose to
introduce a radio-over-fiber (RoF) infrastructure at
home. This paper presents a complete study of a RoF
system: the 60 GHz radio coverage is extended using a
RoF link working at intermediate frequency with two hops
in the air. An experimental setup of such an
infrastructure has been realized and characterized. A
low-cost solution, working at 850 nm, was chosen using
multimode fiber and off-the-shelf millimeter-wave
and photonic components. Finally, a
real-time transmission between two commercial WirelessHD
devices working at 3Gb/s has been
carried out.
© 2011 IEEE
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