Optically beam-formed antennas for terrestrial wireless access networks (OBANET)

OBANET project aims at designing and testing specific coverage area management strategies as well as their associated technologies for performance optimisation in broadband adaptive broadband wireless access networks in two scenarios: fixed and mobile broadband radio accesses in the 40 GHz band. Optically beamformed base station antennas capabilities to address dynamically changes in the network features and resources in order to overcome the service unavailability arising from man-made and natural impairments will be demonstrated. Coverage area management strategies and control/monitoring protocols for fixed and mobile radio accesses will be developed. High-performance optoelectronic devices and photonic integrated circuits composing the optical beamformers will be developed, using dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) and photonic integrated circuit (PIC) technologies.