Title:
TRANSMISSION PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION IN FIBER-WIRELESS ACCESS NETWORKS USING MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES

dc.contributor.advisor Bloch, Matthieu R.
dc.contributor.author Zhou, Qi
dc.contributor.committeeMember Ma, Xiaoli
dc.contributor.committeeMember Anderson, David V.
dc.contributor.committeeMember Barry, John
dc.contributor.committeeMember Mao, Shiwen
dc.contributor.department Electrical and Computer Engineering
dc.date.accessioned 2022-01-14T16:11:41Z
dc.date.available 2022-01-14T16:11:41Z
dc.date.created 2021-12
dc.date.issued 2021-12-14
dc.date.submitted December 2021
dc.date.updated 2022-01-14T16:11:41Z
dc.description.abstract The objective of this dissertation is to enhance the transmission performance in the fiber-wireless access network through mitigating the vital system limitations of both analog radio over fiber (A-RoF) and digital radio over fiber (D-RoF), with machine learning techniques being systematically implemented. The first thrust is improving the spectral efficiency for the optical transmission in the D-RoF to support the delivery of the massive number of bits from digitized radio signals. Advanced digital modulation schemes like PAM8, discrete multi-tone (DMT), and probabilistic shaping are investigated and implemented, while they may introduce severe nonlinear impairments on the low-cost optical intensity-modulation-direct-detection (IMDD) based D-RoF link with a limited dynamic range. An efficient deep neural network (DNN) equalizer/decoder to mitigate the nonlinear degradation is therefore designed and experimentally verified. Besides, we design a neural network based digital predistortion (DPD) to mitigate the nonlinear impairments from the whole link, which can be integrated into a transmitter with more processing resources and power than a receiver in an access network. Another thrust is to proactively mitigate the complex interferences in radio access networks (RANs). The composition of signals from different licensed systems and unlicensed transmitters creates an unprecedently complex interference environment that cannot be solved by conventional pre-defined network planning. In response to the challenges, a proactive interference avoidance scheme using reinforcement learning is proposed and experimentally verified in a mmWave-over-fiber platform. Except for the external sources, the interference may arise internally from a local transmitter as the self-interference (SI) that occupies the same time and frequency block as the signal of interest (SOI). Different from the conventional subtraction-based SI cancellation scheme, we design an efficient dual-inputs DNN (DI-DNN) based canceller which simultaneously cancels the SI and recovers the SOI.
dc.description.degree Ph.D.
dc.format.mimetype application/pdf
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/66147
dc.language.iso en_US
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology
dc.subject fiber wireless network machine learning digital signal processing
dc.title TRANSMISSION PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION IN FIBER-WIRELESS ACCESS NETWORKS USING MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES
dc.type Text
dc.type.genre Dissertation
dspace.entity.type Publication
local.contributor.advisor Bloch, Matthieu R.
local.contributor.corporatename School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
local.contributor.corporatename College of Engineering
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thesis.degree.level Doctoral
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