Performance Evaluation of Radio over Fiber System Model in Multipath Fading Channel at 60 GHz

Providing high data rates and wide bandwidth applications are the most important challenges that mobile systems and radio networks are trying to accomplish. Radio over Fiber (RoF) system is a promoting research field since it benefits of Passive Optical Network (PON) advantages and unlicensed large bands in 60 GHz millimeter band (57-64GHz). In this study, we consider a complete downlink RoF system from the central office to the end-user passing by the base station and we study the impact of the propagation environment on the whole system performance and the radio coverage. Different scenarios for multipath propagation are considered (Line of Sight-LOS, Non Line of SightNLOF). In particular, we have been interested in Rayleigh and Rice propagation models for both indoor and outdoor environments. Optisystem/ADS Co-simulation has been investigated to simulate RoF network coverage for indoor and outdoor environments while considering IEEE 802.15.3C application classes and assuming 16-QAM, Q-PSK and B-PSK modulation formats.