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Study on Applicability of Radio over Fiber system for 5G New Radio Access Technology

5G New Radio Access Technology를 위한 Radio over Fiber 시스템의 수용가능성 연구

  • Kim, Sung-Man (Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Kyungsung University)
  • 김성만 (경성대학교 전기전자공학부)
  • Received : 2016.07.29
  • Accepted : 2016.09.24
  • Published : 2016.09.30
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Abstract

5G New Radio Access Technology(: RAT) is studied by many researchers because the current radio frequency is insufficient to accommodate the increased mobile communication data traffic. However, there are few researches to study on the issue whether the wired mobile network can accommodate the new RAT. Therefore, in the paper, the study on the issue whether the Radio over Fiber(: RoF) system can accommodate the new RATs such as millimeter wave communication, terahertz communication, and optical wireless communication. As a result of the study, only millimeter wave communication deserve to be considered in ten years and even RoF system may not support the increased bandwidth of the millimeter wave communication when beamforming is used.

현재 이동통신망에서 요구되는 많은 통신량을 수용하기 위해서 새로운 주파수 대역을 사용하는 5G New RAT(: Radio Access Technology) 에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 하지만, 이러한 새로운 New RAT 기술이 이동통신에 적용되었을 때에 이를 유선 이동통신망에서 수용할 수 있을지에 대해서는 제대로 연구된 바가 없다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 이러한 New RAT 기술을 RoF(: Radio over Fiber) 기술로 이동통신망의 Fronthaul에서 수용이 가능한지에 대한 연구를 진행하였다. 본 연구에서는 New RAT 의 기술로 밀리미터파 통신기술, 테라헤르츠파 통신기술, 무선 광통신 기술 등을 고려하고, 이들 각각에 대한 RoF 기술의 응용 가능성을 연구하였다. 연구의 결론을 요약하면, 10 년 이내의 범위에서 세 가지 New RAT 기술 중에 밀리미터파 통신기술에 대해서만 RoF 수용성을 고려하면 되는 것으로 판단되며, 빔포밍을 사용하는 경우에는 밀리미터파 통신기술의 요구 전송 대역폭이 너무 많아 Fronthaul 에서 RoF 기술로도 수용이 쉽지 않은 것으로 결론이 내려졌다.

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