| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/R40364/01 |
| Title: |
Fibre-Radio for In-Building Distributed Antenna Systems (FRIDAY) |
| Principal Investigator: |
Penty, Professor R |
| Other Investigators: |
|
| Researcher Co-Investigators: |
|
| Project Partners: |
|
| Department: |
Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
| Organisation: |
University of Bristol |
| Scheme: |
LINK |
| Starts: |
24 September 2001 |
Ends: |
30 September 2001 |
Value (£): |
99,137
|
| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
|
| EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications: |
| Communications |
Electronics |
|
| Related Grants: |
|
| Panel History: |
|
|
Summary on Grant Application Form |
|
The market for extended coverage of second generation (2G) cellular systems is becoming increasingly important to mobile network operators in application areas such as corporate office buildings, shopping centers and airports. Good coverage can only be provided in most instances using distributed antenna systems (DAS) within the building since the signal penetration from outside base stations is unreliable. Radio over fibre is preferred for DAS due to the small size and low attenuation properties of optical fibre, which means that system design is made relatively straightforward (and therefore cheap) due to the insensitivity of signal loss as a function of cable length.The problem with today's fibre-based DAS systems is that current products for this market are designed for a single service and use expensive optoelectronic technology. This project seeks to overcome these limitations by exploring the use of low-cost mass-market 850nm, VCSELs and subcarrier transmissions over pre-installed multi-mode fibre (MMF) to design and implement a low-cost, multi-service fibre-based DAS. Services to be included are GSM (0.9GHz and 1.8GHz), UMTS (2GHz) and HIPERLAN/2 (5-6GHz) to give a flexible and future-resistant system with data rates up to 54Mb/s. This is a novel approach which stands a good chance of success, based on previous work on analogue modulation of VCSELs and high frequency, subcarrier multiplexed (SCM) transmission over MMF (at Bristol) and multi-service radio over fibre systems (at UCL).
|
|
Key Findings |
|
This information can now be found on Gateway to Research (GtR) http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk
|
|
Potential use in non-academic contexts |
|
This information can now be found on Gateway to Research (GtR) http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk
|
|
Impacts |
|
| Description |
This information can now be found on Gateway to Research (GtR) http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk |
| Summary |
|
| Date Materialised |
|
|
|
|
Sectors submitted by the Researcher |
|
This information can now be found on Gateway to Research (GtR) http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk
|
| Project URL: |
|
| Further Information: |
|
| Organisation Website: |
http://www.bris.ac.uk |