Fiber Assisted Wireless for Broadband Access Networks

Speaker:

Nicholas Madamopoulos, City College of CUNY

Date & Time:

April 25, 2008 - 11:00am

Location:

ECE Room 240

Fiber Assisted Wireless for Broadband Access Networks Electrical and Computer Engineering
Nicholas Madamopoulos City College of CUNY 11:00 AM, ECE Room 240 With the advent of broadband wireless systems operating at microwave frequency bands, and with the entailed shrinkage of cell coverage for high capacity wireless access, the simplification of the antenna stations becomes crucial to reduce access infrastructure cost. For this purpose, radio-over-fiber (RoF) distribution antenna systems are an attractive option for the transparent delivery of wireless data signals from a central office location to remote antenna sites via optical fiber. In this way, the complicated and costly (in particular for high RF frequencies) wireless signal processing can be placed in the central office. This presentation will give an overview of the Fiber Assisted Wireless for Broadband Access Networks. The approach is based on passive optical network architectures that can support the generation, transmission and delivery of high frequency signals required in wireless links. In addition these architectures allow the sharing of a single central office and provide additional direct interconnectivity of the antenna station so dynamic bandwidth allocation can be addressed as mobile customers enter or leave the coverage area of different cell coverage. Biography Professor Nicholas Madamopoulos is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, City College of CUNY, New York. He received his B.S. in Physics, from the University of Patras, Patras, Greece in 1993 and the MS and Ph.D. in Optical Science and Engineering, at the The School of Optics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, in 1996 and 1998, respectively. His research interests include optical communications, passive optical networks, analog photonics, photonic sensors, photonic systems for telecom and non-telecom applications.

Fiber Assisted Wireless for Broadband Access Networks
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Nicholas Madamopoulos
City College of CUNY
11:00 AM, ECE Room 240

With the advent of broadband wireless systems operating at microwave frequency bands, and with the entailed shrinkage of cell coverage for high capacity wireless access, the simplification of the antenna stations becomes crucial to reduce access infrastructure cost. For this purpose, radio-over-fiber (RoF) distribution antenna systems are an attractive option for the transparent delivery of wireless data signals from a central office location to remote antenna sites via optical fiber. In this way, the complicated and costly (in particular for high RF frequencies) wireless signal processing can be placed in the central office.

This presentation will give an overview of the Fiber Assisted Wireless for Broadband Access Networks. The approach is based on passive optical network architectures that can support the generation, transmission and delivery of high frequency signals required in wireless links. In addition these architectures allow the sharing of a single central office and provide additional direct interconnectivity of the antenna station so dynamic bandwidth allocation can be addressed as mobile customers enter or leave the coverage area of different cell coverage.

Biography
Professor Nicholas Madamopoulos is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, City College of CUNY, New York. He received his B.S. in Physics, from the University of Patras, Patras, Greece in 1993 and the MS and Ph.D. in Optical Science and Engineering, at the The School of Optics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, in 1996 and 1998, respectively. His research interests include optical communications, passive optical networks, analog photonics, photonic sensors, photonic systems for telecom and non-telecom applications.

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