Optical Network Architectures for Dynamic Reconfiguration of Full Duplex, Multi- wavelength, Radio-over-Fibre

In recent years there have been rapid advances in the techniques to generate and transport radio signals over optical fibre, however very little has been done to date to develop the concept of a full duplex, multi-wavelength, radio -over-fibre network architecture that intrinsically supports and facilitates the dynamic reconfiguration of the wireless network. Recently the development of suitable architectures has received attention, with some approaches concentrating on the fibre radio link layer [1] and others focusing on the optical WDM layer [2,3]. Here we present for the first time an approach which aims to vertically integrate the cellular radio layer, the fibre radio layer, the optical networking layer and the physical layer to achieve a network architecture that enables the dynamic reconfiguration of the cellular wireless network layer.