Evaluation of the Digital Data Performance Transmission on a Fiber-Radio System

Abstract

This work shows a set of numerical simulations to evaluate the digital data performance transmission for a fiber-radio system. For this goal, VPI Photonics software is used to simulate the transmission of a digital signal at a bit rate of 2.4 GHz through an optical link of 25 km of single-mode standard fiber (SM-SF). Whereas MATLAB software is utilized to emulate a wireless channel considering four main phenomena inherent to this channel, such as multipath and slow fading, co-channel interference, and additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN). The modeling carried out in MATLAB considers a user in movement within its coverage area cell. The constellation diagram, bit error rate (BER), and signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) statistical tests are used to evaluate the performance of this approach. This proposal finds potential applications in the field of cellular telephony, the Internet of Things (IoT), or any other communication system to evaluate the quality of the delivered signal to a user in motion within a particular coverage cell.