Analysis of 5G new radio uplink signals on an analogue-RoF system based on DSP-assisted channel aggregation

The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) is in the process of developing 5th generation (5G) radio access technology, the so-called new radio (NR). The aim is to achieve the performance requirements forIMT-2020 radio interface technology. In this paper, we focus on the analysis of the transmission of 5G NR uplink physical channels, such as physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) and physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), dedicated for data and control channels, respectively, as specified in the 3GPP standard, using digital signal processing (DSP)-assisted frequency division multiple access (FDMA) and time division multiple access (TDMA) channel aggregation techniques on an analogue radio-over-fiber (A-RoF) architecture. We verified that there is ~34% spectral efficiency gain and lower error vector magnitude (EVM) achieved using the TDMA technique.