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Polarization Planning for Wireless Networks

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Polarization diversity enables frequency reuse in a telecommunication network. The most widely considered solution is to use two orthogonal polarizations on the same link, which enables to double the available bandwidth. In this paper, we study the possibility to connect the nodes of a ring topology network with one single channel for all the links, with the condition that the polarization of any link is orthogonal to the polarization of the two adjacent links. The solution proposed in this paper can improve spectrum efficiency by up to 50% in comparison with the widespread polarization multiplexing solution. Furthermore, it has implications on network topology and channel allocation.

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Acknowledgements

This research was funded by the Office of the Chief Scientist of the Israel Ministry of Economy under the Neptune generic research project. Neptune is the Israeli consortium for network programming.

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  1. Jerusalem College of Technology, Havaad Haleumi 21, 91160, Jerusalem, Israel

    Philippe Ezran & Yoram Haddad

  2. CentraleSupélec, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

    Philippe Ezran & Mérouane Debbah

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Part of the material in this paper was presented in [4].

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Ezran, P., Haddad, Y. & Debbah, M. Polarization Planning for Wireless Networks. Wireless Pers Commun 98, 759–778 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-017-4894-8

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