STTR PHASE I: High Performance Signal Generation and Data Encoding for Fiber Distributed 60 GHz WPANs

STTR 第一阶段：光纤分布式 60 GHz WPAN 的高性能信号生成和数据编码

• 批准号: 0740461
• 负责人: Dalma Novak
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Pharad LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-01-01 至 2008-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0740461&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: STTR; PHASE; Performance; Signal; Generation

This STTR Phase I research project will develop new enabling technologies for the realization of an integrated fiberoptic wireless network architecture for future millimeter-wave (mm-wave) wireless personal area networks (WPANs). To fully enable the diversity of bandwidth-demanding services for a large number of users or terminals communicating over shorter distances, a mm-wave WPAN architecture that can accommodate multi-gigabit-per-second data rates and multiple radio coverage areas is essential. The integration of a mm-wave WPAN with a fiber-optic signaldistribution scheme provides an efficient means to deliver the required high data rate signals to a large number of radio distribution access points and ensure optimized radio coverage. An optical technique for generating the mm-wave WPAN signals that results in a low phase noise RF carrier after conversion back into the RF domain is essential. Also, the transport of the 60 GHz WPAN signals over fiber must be tolerant to the potential impact of fiber chromatic dispersion on the signal to noise ratio of the recovered wireless signal. New photonic technologies and system architectures are needed that will satisfy the WPAN physical layer requirements. In addition to directly benefiting consumers by providing the ready availability of new bandwidth intensive services via an affordable, efficient, flexible and scalable network architecture with optimized radio coverage, the technology will directly provision new communication services as well as acquire untethered connectivity to future high capacity multimedia communications. The application of the newly invented technologies to other wireless systems will provide additional benefits. The inherent security provided by 60 GHz radio links may also be of direct benefit to organizations such as law enforcement agencies, homeland security, financial institutions and medical institutions, for which the secure transmission of data is critical.

该STTR第一阶段研究项目将开发新的使能技术，用于实现未来毫米波（mm波）无线个域网（WPAN）的集成光纤无线网络架构。为了使大量用户或终端能够在较短距离内通信，充分实现带宽要求高的服务的多样性，一种能够适应每秒数千兆位数据速率和多个无线电覆盖区域的毫米波WPAN架构至关重要。毫米波WPAN与光纤信号分配方案的集成提供了一种有效的手段，可以将所需的高数据速率信号传送到大量无线电分配接入点，并确保优化的无线电覆盖。一种用于产生毫米波WPAN信号的光学技术是必不可少的，该技术在转换回RF域之后产生低相位噪声RF载波。此外，通过光纤传输60 GHz WPAN信号必须能够承受光纤色散对恢复的无线信号的信噪比的潜在影响。需要新的光子技术和系统架构来满足WPAN物理层的要求。除了通过具有优化的无线电覆盖的经济、高效、灵活和可扩展的网络架构提供新的带宽密集型服务的现成可用性来直接使消费者受益之外，该技术还将直接提供新的通信服务，并获得与未来高容量多媒体通信的不受限制的连接。将新发明的技术应用于其他无线系统将提供额外的好处。60 GHz无线电链路提供的固有安全性也可能直接有益于执法机构、国土安全、金融机构和医疗机构等组织，因为数据的安全传输对这些组织至关重要。