Time-Frequency Packing for High Capacity Coherent Optical Links

We consider realistic long-haul optical links, with linear and nonlinear impairments, and investigate the application of time-frequency packing with low-order constellations as a possible solution to increase the spectral efficiency. A detailed comparison with available techniques from the literature will be also performed. We will see that this technique represents a feasible solution to overcome the relevant theoretical and technological issues related to this spectral efficiency increase and could be more effective than the simple adoption of high-order modulation formats.Comment: 10 pages, 9 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1406.5685 by other author

Spectral Efficiency Optimization in Flexi-Grid Long-Haul Optical Systems

Flexible grid optical networks allow a better exploitation of fiber capacity, by enabling a denser frequency allocation. A tighter channel spacing, however, requires narrower filters, which increase linear intersymbol interference (ISI), and may dramatically reduce system reach. Commercial coherent receivers are based on symbol by symbol detectors, which are quite sensitive to ISI. In this context, Nyquist spacing is considered as the ultimate limit to wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) packing. In this paper, we show that by introducing a limited-complexity trellis processing at the receiver, either the reach of Nyquist WDM flexi-grid networks can be significantly extended, or a denser-than-Nyquist channel packing (i.e., a higher spectral efficiency (SE)) is possible at equal reach. By adopting well-known information-theoretic techniques, we design a limited-complexity trellis processing and quantify its SE gain in flexi-grid architectures where wavelength selective switches over a frequency grid of 12.5GHz are employed.Comment: 7 pages, 9 figure

Next-generation long-haul optical links: Higher spectral efficiency through time-frequency packing

We consider realistic long-haul optical links, where nonlinear effects represent the main impairment, and investigate the application of time-frequency packing with low-order constellations as a the most viable solution to increase the spectral efficiency. We will see that this technique allows to overcome the relevant theoretical and technological issues related to this spectral efficiency increase and is more effective than the simple adoption of high-order modulation formats which are more sensitive to nonlinear effects

High spectral efficiency for long-haul optical links: time-frequency packing vs high-order constellations

We investigate the time-frequency packing technique on long-haul optical links in order to increase the spectral efficiency. This solution is compared to high-order formats at equal bit or baud rate, demonstrating that higher spectral efficiency can be more effectively reached

Spectral Efficiency of MIMO Millimeter-Wave Links with Single-Carrier Modulation for 5G Networks

Future wireless networks will extensively rely upon bandwidths centered on carrier frequencies larger than 10GHz. Indeed, recent research has shown that, despite the large path-loss, millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies can be successfully exploited to transmit very large data-rates over short distances to slowly moving users. Due to hardware complexity and cost constraints, single-carrier modulation schemes, as opposed to the popular multi-carrier schemes, are being considered for use at mmWave frequencies. This paper presents preliminary studies on the achievable spectral efficiency on a wireless MIMO link operating at mmWave in a typical 5G scenario. Two different single-carrier modem schemes are considered, i.e. a traditional modulation scheme with linear equalization at the receiver, and a single-carrier modulation with cyclic prefix, frequency-domain equalization and FFT-based processing at the receiver. Our results show that the former achieves a larger spectral efficiency than the latter. Results also confirm that the spectral efficiency increases with the dimension of the antenna array, as well as that performance gets severely degraded when the link length exceeds 100 meters and the transmit power falls below 0dBW. Nonetheless, mmWave appear to be very suited for providing very large data-rates over short distances.Comment: 8 pages, 8 figures, to appear in Proc. 20th International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA2016

Electronic processing for optical communication systems

I sistemi di comunicazione in fibra ottica risentono di diversi tipi di disturbi, quali ad esempio la dispersione cromatica e la dispersione dei modi di polarizzazione. La compensazione ottica di tali disturbi è possibile ma complessa e costosa, mentre le tecniche di elaborazione elettronica del segnale presentano diversi vantaggi, semplicità, costo, adattabilità. L'equalizzazione elettronica e la strategia di rivelazione di sequenza a massima verosimiglianza rappresentano soluzioni efficaci e realizzabili con semplici modulazioni di ampiezza e anche con più avanzate modulazioni di fase e fase-ampiezza.Optical communication systems are suffering from several typical impairments, chromatic dispersion and polarization mode dispersion. Optical compensation of such impairments is possible but it is technological demanding and expensive, whereas electronic signal processing presents many advantages, implementation ease, cost-efficiency, adaptability. Electronic equalization and maximum likelihood sequence detection represent effective and feasible solutions for simple amplitude modulation formats as well as for more advanced phase and phase-amplitude modulation formats

Single-Carrier Modulation versus OFDM for Millimeter-Wave Wireless MIMO

This paper presents results on the achievable spectral efficiency and on the energy efficiency for a wireless multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) link operating at millimeter wave frequencies (mmWave) in a typical 5G scenario. Two different single-carrier modem schemes are considered, i.e., a traditional modulation scheme with linear equalization at the receiver, and a single-carrier modulation with cyclic prefix, frequency-domain equalization and FFT-based processing at the receiver; these two schemes are compared with a conventional MIMO-OFDM transceiver structure. Our analysis jointly takes into account the peculiar characteristics of MIMO channels at mmWave frequencies, the use of hybrid (analog-digital) pre-coding and post-coding beamformers, the finite cardinality of the modulation structure, and the non-linear behavior of the transmitter power amplifiers. Our results show that the best performance is achieved by single-carrier modulation with time-domain equalization, which exhibits the smallest loss due to the non-linear distortion, and whose performance can be further improved by using advanced equalization schemes. Results also confirm that performance gets severely degraded when the link length exceeds 90-100 meters and the transmit power falls below 0 dBW.Comment: accepted for publication on IEEE Transactions on Communication