Chapter 1
Power-Efficient Last Mile
Access Using
Fiber-Connected Massively
Distributed Antenna
(BWA-FMDA) System
Alireza Attar, Haoming Li and Victor C. M. Leung
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of British Columbia
{attar, hlih, vleung}@ece.ubc.ca
1.1 Evolution of Cellular Networks and Power Efficiency
Considerations ................................................. 4
1.1.1 Power Consumption ................................... 4
1.1.2 Traffic Density ......................................... 5
1.1.3 Equipment Cost ........................................ 6
1.1.4 The Goals and Organization of This Chapter ......... 7
1.2 BWA-FMDA Architecture ..................................... 7
1.2.1 A Brief Background on RoF Solutions ............ ...