Investigation of F-OFDM in 5G fronthaul networks for seamless carrier-aggregation and asynchronous transmission

We propose a seamless carrier-aggregation scheme for supporting IFoF MFH system in 5G network based on F-OFDM. We successfully demonstrate gapless 5×200-MHz signals for downlink and asynchronous uplink with corresponding to 40.55 Gb/s CPRI-equivalent data rate over 6-GHz wireless and 20-km fiber channel.