TY - JOUR
TI - MCF Skew Estimation at the Receiver for ARoF Antenna Beamforming
AU - Nikas, T.
AU - Pikasis, E.
AU - Karabetsos, S.
AU - Syvridis, D.
JO - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
PY - 2020
VL - 11616 LNCS
TODO - null
SP - 560-569
PB - Springer-Verlag
SN - null
TODO - 10.1007/978-3-030-38085-4_48
TODO - 5G mobile communication systems;  Beam forming networks;  Beamforming;  Directional patterns (antenna);  Fiber optic networks;  Radio transmission;  Radio-over-fiber, Antenna array elements;  Antenna beamforming;  Differential delays;  Multicore fiber;  Phase response;  Phased array antennas;  Radio-over-fiber transmission;  Skew estimation, Antenna phased arrays
TODO - Multicore fibers can be used for Radio over Fiber transmission of mmwave signals for phased array antennas in 5G networks. The inter-core skew of these fibers distorts the radiation pattern and has to be measured and compensated. We propose a method to accurately measure the differential delays remotely, after installation, without intervening heavily with the transmitter setup. The properties of the phase response measured at a distant receiver are exploited to acquire the differential delays among the antenna array elements. © 2020, IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.
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