Radio over Fiber for Wireless Communications: From Fundamentals to Advanced Topics

A comprehensive evaluation of Fi-Wi, enabling readers to design links using power budget calculations, channel estimation, and equalization algorithms

This book provides a detailed study of radio over fiber (ROF)-based wireless communication systems, otherwise called fiber wireless (Fi-Wi) systems. It is an emerging hot topic, where the abundant bandwidth of optical fiber is combined directly with the flexibility and mobility of wireless networks to provide broadband connectivity. The book provides substantial material on the ROF part of the complete Fi-Wi system, including new research results on compensation methods.

The early chapters provide the fundamental knowledge required for a non-expert engineering professional as well as senior/graduate-level students to learn the topic from scratch. The latter part of the book covers advanced topics useful for researchers and senior students. Therefore, this book provides a comprehensive understanding of the system for readers who will gain enough knowledge to design Fi-Wi links of their own by learning how to develop Fi-Wi channel estimation and equalization algorithms. This concept is completely novel in the current literature and has been patented by the author.

In the increasingly demanding telecommunications profession, engineers are expected to have knowledge in both optical and wireless communications and expected design combined/hybrid systems. Hence, the book is written in such a way that both optical and wireless professionals will be able to easily understand and perceive the concepts