Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Access Based Passive Optical Network

In recent decades, the industry of communications has acquired huge significance, and nowadays constitutes an essential tool for the society information. Thus, the exponential growth in demand of broadband services and the increasing amount of information to be transmitted have spurred the evolution of the access network infrastructure to effectively meet the user needs in an effective way in terms of costs of both installation and maintenance. Passive optical networks (PON) are currently considered the most efficient and least costly alternative to deploy fiber to the home environment. In order to allow many users simultaneously coexist PONs based on time multiplexing (TDMA) have been developed. Looking ahead, however, it is expected that these techniques do not meet the requirements on access networks. In consequence, other multiple access techniques such as Wavelength Division Multiplexing Access (WDMA) or Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Access (OFDMA) are currently under study and development for use in the next generation of PONs. Particularly, in recent years OFDM has stood out among the scientific community to be considered a solution with great potential on future implementation of PONs. This is especially true due to the capacity of OFDM to work with multilevel modulations, its high tolerance to chromatic dispersion, and its high flexibility and granularity in terms of bandwidth management. Given the above, the aim of this Thesis is to study deeply the advantages and challenges of implementing the standard OFDM as an access network solution; likewise, it offers solutions to improve its performance. In order to evaluate the main structures and strategies for OFDM-based PON, a comparative analysis of all of them is performed firstly, highlighting their sensitivity levels, maximum range and number of users. A key aspect for network providers is the cost of operation, deployment and maintenance of networks. As a low-cost solution, this Thesis proposes a network model called Statistical-OFDMA-PON based on intensity modulation and direct detection. In addition, dynamic bandwidth management strategies are applied into this model getting an improvement in the power balance which in turn, allows to increase the maximum range and the scalability in number of users. One of the main OFDM problems is the Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) which increases with the number of carriers. This thesis proposes a new algorithm based on folding the signal and transmitting auxiliary information in order to compensate the PAPR effect and thus increase the sensitivity of the optical system. On the other hand, OFDMA requires a large number of operations in the digital domain resulting in a high computational effort, which in turn results in an increased cost. For this reason, this Thesis presents a study on the optimization of the required resolution in the Digital-to-Analog / Analog-to-Digital Converters (DAC/ADCs) maintaining the transmission quality. The optimization of the computation time may make the OFDMA-based optical network more attractive for future PONs. Finally, another problem concerning the OFDM optical networks is their sensitivity to Phase Noise (PN). In this regard, this Thesis presents a study of the effect of the laser linewidth and its dependence on signal bandwidth. A mitigation technique based on pilot tones is implemented and the limiting values for the laser linewidth are found to be within the reach of present low-cost light sources.

[ANGLÈS] Research activities for new alternatives in ultra fast transmission over optical fiber networks are looking towards Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) which is used in different modern communication systems such as LTE, WiFi or WiMax because of the following reasons: tolerance to channel limitations, better spectral exploitation, scalability, flexibility and implementation feasibility with state of the art electronics. These benefits have been subject of major interest in Passive Optical Networks (PONs), which depend on reliable but low cost solutions to be commercialized. The adaptation of OFDM as an access scheme in PONs with cost effective Intensity Modulation with Direct Detection (IM/DD) can potentially deliver these benefits and be a next step in the evolution of high volume data access networks. The flexibility given by OFDM is applied as bandwidth granularity for the users in such way that each of them will be guaranteed with a certain level of service, yet the reconfigurability capabilities and bandwidth assignment for different users in a Optical Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed Access (O-OFDMA) PON must be properly understood. The work reports the development of a test bed on IM/DD O-OFDMA for next generation PONs, in particular studying bandwidth assignment for different users for future Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation strategies.

The thesis investigates a new long-reach passive optical networks (LRPON) architecture based on multi-band coherent optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (CO-OFDM). The proposed CO-OFDM based LRPON system is characterized by a novel phase noise compensation mechanism aiming to deal with optical signal dispersion in long-range transmissions. By employing a dispersion compensating fiber (DCF) and local oscillator (LO) laser phase shifter for each end-to-end transmission between OLT and ONU, we will show the phase noise due to dispersion can be effectively mitigated. Simulation of the downlink traffic between one optical line terminal (OLT) and 12 optical network units (ONUs) is performed successfully at different fiber lengths, at the data rate of 10$Gbps$ per ONU. The required BER for the forward error correction (FEC) has been achieved for most ONUs, using a dispersion compensating fiber (DCF) and local oscillator (LO) laser phase shifter to compensate for the chromatic dispersion (CD) and the polarization mode dispersion (PMD), respectively.

The first book on optical OFDM by the leading pioneers in the field The only book to cover error correction codes for optical OFDM Gives applications of OFDM to free-space communications, optical access networks, and metro and log haul transports show optical OFDM can be implemented Contains introductions to signal processing for optical engineers and optical communication fundamentals for wireless engineers This book gives a coherent and comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of OFDM signal processing, with a distinctive focus on its broad range of applications. It evaluates the architecture, design and performance of a number of OFDM variations, discusses coded OFDM, and gives a detailed study of error correction codes for access networks, 100 Gb/s Ethernet and future optical networks. The emerging applications of optical OFDM, including single-mode fiber transmission, multimode fiber transmission, free space optical systems, and optical access networks are examined, with particular attention paid to passive optical networks, radio-over-fiber, WiMAX and UWB communications. Written by two of the leading contributors to the field, this book will be a unique reference for optical communications engineers and scientists. Students, technical managers and telecom executives seeking to understand this new technology for future-generation optical networks will find the book invaluable. William Shieh is an associate professor and reader in the electrical and electronic engineering department, The University of Melbourne, Australia. He received his M.S. degree in electrical engineering and Ph.D. degree in physics both from University of Southern California. Ivan Djordjevic is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona, Tucson, where he directs the Optical Communications Systems Laboratory (OCSL). His current research interests include optical networks, error control coding, constrained coding, coded modulation, turbo equalization, OFDM applications, and quantum error correction. "This wonderful book is the first one to address the rapidly emerging optical OFDM field. Written by two leading researchers in the field, the book is structured to comprehensively cover any optical OFDM aspect one could possibly think of, from the most fundamental to the most specialized. The book adopts a coherent line of presentation, while striking a thoughtful balance between the various topics, gradually developing the optical-physics and communication-theoretic concepts required for deep comprehension of the topic, eventually treating the multiple optical OFDM methods, variations and applications. In my view this book will remain relevant for many years to come, and will be increasingly accessed by graduate students, accomplished researchers as well as telecommunication engineers and managers keen to attain a perspective on the emerging role of OFDM in the evolution of photonic networks." -- Prof. Moshe Nazarathy, EE Dept., Technion, Israel Institute of Technology The first book on optical OFDM by the leading pioneers in the field The only book to cover error correction codes for optical OFDM Applications of OFDM to free-space communications, optical access networks, and metro and log haul transports show optical OFDM can be implemented An introduction to signal processing for optical communications An introduction to optical communication fundamentals for the wireless engineer

The aim of this work is to offer different alternatives for an OFDM PON networks, studying and analyzing many systems with their pros and cons and proposing news schematics for a multiuser scenario for the uplink. The systems analyzed are composed by an optical I/Q transmitter and two types of receivers, a DD and a hybrid 90o coherent receiver. A new technique, called predistortion, that improves the drawbacks of the conventional oIQ systems is studied. The idea to perform the multiuser scenario is shifting the user data, allowing allocation of each user in a given optical spectral band. All the simulations have been done using the commercial software VPItransmissionMakerTM and VPIphotonicsAnalyzerTM, (VPI) in combination with a code in Matlab for the OFDM coder and decoder. Also the performance of the optical OFDM systems is measured by means of a script in TCL/TK language that allows changing many parameters, in order to test and obtain results of the systems performance in terms of sensitivity vs. length for a threshold minimum quality BER value of 10-3.

[ANGLÈS] The new generation of Pasive Optical Networks (PONs) to cover the last-mile to the user, is today a hot topic of research. Stringent performance requirements are both capacity and reach; these, together with reduced cost lead to consideration of a new paradigm. In this context, Optical OFDM (O-OFDM) is regarded as a promising candidate. From the many architectures being proposed for O-OFDM, the use of Direct Detection is particularly interesting for the downlink of Passive Optical Networks as cost-efficient Optical Network Units (ONUs) are required. In this line, this work encompasses a general study of Direct Detection Optical OFDM (DD O-OFDM) communications systems with emphasis on applications to optical Access Networks. It proposes designs for the downstream links of three different access network topologies differentiated by the optical modulation used: an Intensity Modulation (IM) with a Directly Modulated Laser (DML) an IM with a Mach-Zehnder Modulator (MZM) and an Amplitude modulation also with a MZM. All systems are based on Direct Detection receivers and the transmission of O-OFDM signals. The architectures, establish a wavelength agnostic link by transmitting Double Side Band signals. The impairments of a DSB transmission are studied and parting from them an optimization on the network?s parameters of frequency Guard Band and Carrier to Signal Power Ratio is performed. In order to test the architectures and optimize the parameters, simulations were executed using the commercial software VPI Transmission Maker TM. The testing of the architectures was done by minimizing receiver sensitivity at a BER 10-3 for data rates of 10Gbps and 40Gbps using 4-QAM and 16-QAM respectively, as digital modulation formats. Results show that spectral occupancy of the O-OFDM signal and the CSPR can be optimized while at the same time compensating for DSB impairments such as amplitude fading. Also the advantages and disadvantages of each optical modulation format depending on data rates and link?s distances required as well as cost-effectiveness are tested and described.

This book focuses on recent research and developments on optical communications. The chapters present different aspects of optical communication systems, comprising high capacity transmission over long distances, coherent and intensity modulated technologies, orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing, ultrafast switching techniques, and photonic integrated devices. Digital signal processing and error correction techniques are also addressed. The content is of interest to graduate students and researchers in optical communications.