Author(s)

Mamadou Sarr, Dialo Diop^*, Ndolane Diouf, Kharouna Talla

Solids Physics and Materials Sciences Loboratory Group, Faculty of Science and Technology, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal.

The massive growth of wireless traffic goes hand in hand with the deployment of advanced radio interfaces as well as network densification. This growth has a direct impact on the radio access architecture, which today is moving from centralized to distributed deployments through the use of a large number of access points (APs). This paper verifies the feasibility of deploying multiple APs in series on a single line in a ring topology in a cell-less network. On the one hand, this technique will further improve the communication capacity and flexibility of a Radio-over-Fiber (RoF) based mobile communication system and will reduce its construction cost. And on the other hand, this deployment topology is a solution to achieve a massive cell-free Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) architecture and a cost-effective fronthaul solution. First, a passive optical add/drop multiplexer (OADM) is used to extract and add downlink and uplink signals from the remote access points of one kilometer. Then, a deployment model is developed with version 17 Optisystem software. The results obtained showed that the quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) does not adapt to this multi-carrier transmission to deploy several AP in series on a single line. Thus, the performance degradation increases when the number of APs integrated on the line increases.

RoF, Ring Topology, MIMO Antennas, Cell-less Network

Sarr, M. , Diop, D. , Diouf, N. and Talla, K. (2023) Study of Radio over Fiber Transmission with a Single Line in Ring Topology for Deployment of MIMO Antenna Access Points in a Cell-less Network. Journal of Sensor Technology, 13, 13-23. doi: 10.4236/jst.2023.132002.