Optical fiber based on wireless scheme for wideband multimedia access

• US 20030078074A1
• Filed: 04/29/2002
• Published: 04/24/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Telecommunications Research Laboratories
• Original Assignee: Telecommunications Research Laboratories
• Inventors: Fernando, Xavier Navajothy, Sesay, Abu Bakarr
• Granted Patent: US 6,889,060 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/561
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 10/25754 Star network topology

Abstract

A Fiber-wireless uplink consists of a wireless channel followed by a radio-over-fiber (ROF) link. Typically, nonlinear distortion of the ROF link is the major concern when the radio frequency is only a few GHz. This especially severe in the uplink, because of the multipath fading of the wireless channel. A Hammerstein type decision feedback equalizer is described for the fiber wireless uplink, that compensates for nonlinear distortion of the ROF link as well as linear dispersion of the wireless channel. Since the linear and nonlinear parts of the receiver are separated, tracking the fast changing wireless channel is virtually independent of compensating for the relatively static nonlinearity. Analytical results show that the receiver provides excellent compensation with notably less complexity.

Claims

1. In a central base station of a communications network, wherein the central base station communicates over a channel with multiple portable units, the channel having a channel impulse response and the channel contributing linear and nonlinear distortion to a signal x(n) transmitted over the channel, an equalizer comprising:

a polynomial filter for receiving signals from the portable units and for producing an output signal z(n) that is compensated for nonlinear channel distortion; and

a filter section following the polynomial filter for compensating for linear channel distortion.

2. In the central base station of claim 1, the polynomial filter being configured to apply a polynomial having polynomial coefficients gi calculated from the signals received from the portable units.

3. In the central base station of claim 2, the polynomial coefficients being calculated without explicitly estimating a polynomial that characterizes the channel.

4. In the central base station of claim 3, the equalizer being configured to calculate the polynomial coefficients gi by:

estimating the channel impulse response h(n);

correlating the channel impulse response h(n) with the signal x(n) transmitted over the channel to produce a signal q(n); and

selecting the coefficients gi so that the output z(n) of the polynomial filter is proportional to q(n).

5. In the central base station of claim 4, the coefficients of the polynomial being selected by a method from the group consisting of QR decomposition and an adaptive technique.

6. In the central base station of claim 5, the coefficients of the polynomial being selected by QR decomposition.

7. In the central base station of claim 1, the polynomial filter being memoryless.

8. In the central base station of claim 1, the filter section being a decision feedback equalizer having a feedforward filter and a feedback filter.

9. In the central base station of claim 1, the equalizer being configured to estimate the channel impulse response h(n) by using correlation properties of PN sequences.

10. In the central base station of claim 9, the correlation properties being determined using a Vandermonde matrix approach with projection of linear and nonlinear coefficients of the feedforward filter and the feedback filter onto different subspaces.

11. In the central base station of claim 1, the equalizer being configured to adapt to a channel that incorporates a radio link that contributes a linear distortion to the channel.

12. In the central base station of claim 11, the equalizer being configured to adapt to a channel that incorporates an optical fiber link that contributes a nonlinear distortion to the channel.

13. In the central base station of claim 4, the equalizer being a baseband equalizer.