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This paper reports an analysis of the transmission performance of a hybrid broadband access system consisting of a fiber optic feeder and a millimeter-wave radio channel in the last mile. It is also assumed that the system adopts the multi-carrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA) technique, that allows effective radio resource utilization and does not require a strong equalization. The analysis reveals that the impact of non-linear effects, mostly due to the non-linear optical source and secondarily due to non-ideal RF power amplifier characteristics, could prevent the good performance of the system as a whole, and indicates which are the good operating conditions for the systems.
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Betti, S., D'Ignazio, T., Sabella, R. et al. Transmission Performance of MC-CDMA Hybrid Fiber-Radio Systems. Photonic Network Communications 5, 189–197 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022124628288
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