Revista Facultad de Ingeniería Universidad de Antioquia (May 2018)

Latency analysis on W-band hybrid fiber-wireless link using software defined radio in real time

  • Mónica Andrea Rico-Martínez,
  • Álvaro Morales-Vicente,
  • Rafael Puerta-Ramírez,
  • Víctor Mehmeri-Dantas,
  • Idelfonso Tafur-Monroy,
  • Gloria Margarita Varón-Durán

Journal volume & issue
no. 87

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This paper reports an experimental comparison and analysis of latency for different modulation techniques at different data rates in W-band Radio-over-Fiber (RoF) transmission links. In addition, a software defined radio called GNU-Radio is employed with Universal Software Radio Peripherals (USRP) to generate and retrieve the transmitted signals. Likewise, it is used to test the end to end latency in the W-band RoF link. Our main contribution is achieving a W-Band low-latency wireless fiber link which fits to the key performance indicators of 5G networks.

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