Proposal of Asynchronous Time Division Multiple Access Radio Highway Using Chirp Multiplexing Transform

Abstract

Asynchronous TDMA bus-link systems using chirp multiplexing transform(CMT) are proposed for radio highway networks to provide the flexibleconstruction of fiber-optic radio access networks and thepossibility of the universal use of these networks among future diverseradio services. The CMT equipped at the radio base station performs twofunctions. One is the conversion of FDM multiple radio services intosignals with a TDMA format and the other is the time compression ofthe generated signal in order to allow asynchronous access. As aresult, the proposed systems can realize the unified transmission ofmultiple radio services and the switching of them in the optical stage(photonic routing) in the networks according to the type of radioservice. The realization of such photonic routing of the radio servicewould greatly benefit the goal of a seamless and universalnetwork available to different types of radio service. Therelationship between the pulse-loss probability performance and thecall-blocking probability performance is theoretically analyzed. Theeffect on the performance of traffic partiality in the coveredarea and the way the performance can be improved are theoreticallyinvestigated. Finally, one of the ways to determine the network sizecovered by a bus link and the number of connected radio base stationsis introduced.