English | 2021 | ISBN: ‎ 0128216271 | 377 pages | True PDF| 13.72 MB

"Optical Communications in the 5G Era provides an up-to-date overview of the emeg optical communication technologies for 5G wireless networks.

It outlines the emeg applications of optical networks in supporting future wireless networks, state-of-the-art optical communication technologies, and explores new R&D opportunities in the field of converged fixed-mobile networks.

This book is an ideal reference for university researchers, graduate students, and industry R&D eeers in optical communications, photonics, and wireless communications who need a broad and deep understanding of modern optical communication technologies, systems, and networks that are fundamental to 5G and beyond."

• Describes 5G wireless trends and technologies such as cloud radio access networks (C-RAN), massive multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO), and coordinated multipoint (CoMP)
  
  
• Gives an insight into recent advances on the common public radio interface (CPRI), the Ethernet-based CPRI (eCPRI), and the next-generation fronthaul interface (NGFI)
  
  
• Presents X-haul technologies and how transport technologies can satisfy the mobile network needs
  
  
• Identifies promising applications of optical communication technologies in future 5G wireless networks
  
  
• Describes key optical communication technologies such as 100+Gb/s coherent transmission, low-cost direct-detection systems, and associated digital signal processing (DSP) techniques for high-throughput and low-latency wireless fronthaul and backhaul networks
  
  
• Gives various network architectures and designs of optical transport and access systems for better converged fiber/wireless networks
  
  
• Discusses emeg optical technologies such as optical sensing, optical rag, optical face recognition, and optical signal processing