Singh, R., Bai, Q., O'Farrell, T. et al. (2 more authors) (2017) Demonstration of RF Digitising Concurrent Dual-Band Receiver for Carrier Aggregation over TV White Spaces. In: Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall), 2016 IEEE 84th. 2016 IEEE 84th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall), 18-21 Sep 2016, Montreal, QC, Canada. IEEE ISBN 978-1-5090-1701-0
Abstract
In order to meet the high data rate, low latency and high energy efficiency requirements, the future radio units must utilise the frequency spectrum available at certain geographical location efficiently with a minimum amount of hardware. This requires frequency agility and concurrent multi-standard operation capabilities at the base and mobile terminals. To utilise the TV white spaces for mobile and wireless communication and enable their carrier aggregation with sub GHz LTE bands, this paper presents a single-chain, reconfigurable, RF digitising, dual-band receiver comprised of a tunable dual-band antenna, a reconfigurable digital down converter, a baseband processing unit and wideband LNA and ADC in the form of an oscilloscope. The presented dual-band receiver is tested through a hardware-in-the-loop test-bed which shows that up to 20 MHz aggregate bandwidths can be achieved. The receiver is able to provide equivalent error vector magnitude (EVM) performance across a wide range of frequencies avoiding any inter-band interference.
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Item Type: | Proceedings Paper |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 IEEE. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall), 2016 IEEE 84th. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Engineering (Sheffield) > Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL (EPSRC) EP/M013723/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 16 Aug 2016 15:51 |
Last Modified: | 18 Jul 2017 13:21 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1109/VTCFall.2016.7880952 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | IEEE |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1109/VTCFall.2016.7880952 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:103714 |