Review of the Development of China's Mobile Broadband Networks

The year of 2014 saw the beginning of China's LTE,which marks that China has become one of the major engines for the global LTE development.China dazzled in the construction of LTE networks,subscribers,and industry chain.However,the policy formulated around TD-LTE also put China in predicament and brought it many challenges.With this article,we are going to put China's market for mobile broadband networks into perspective,focusing on the development of China's LTE market,challenges that encountered,and the research in this area in the years to come.Besides,in regards to the problems that already appeared,we will,from policy-making,industry-level,and technological points of view,offer our suggestions on how China should do to make this market robust.

A SCHEDULING ALGORITHM USING COMPENSATING ROUND ROBIN IN PACKET-SWTICHING BROADBAND NETWORKS

A new approximation of fair queuing called Compensating Hound Robin (CRR) is presented in this paper. The algorithm uses packet-by-packet scheduler with a compensating measure. It achieves good fairness in terms of throughput, requires only O( I) time complexity to process a packet, and is simple enough to be implemented in hardware. After the performances are analyzed, the fairness and packet loss rate of the algorithm are simulated. Simulation results show that the CRR can effectively isolate the effects of contending .sources.

Powering Next-Generation Broadband Networks: ZTE's World-First Flexible, Configurable Router

16 September 2013, Shenzhen--ZTE today unveiled the world＇s first flexible, reconfigurable terabit router that allows customers to build the highest-performance broadband networks. The terabit router supports the deployment of multiple line cards with processing capabilities of 10 Gbps to 1 Tbps. It also supports the deployment of modules that can scale throughput from 200 Gbps to 18 Tbps. For easy installation in a range of environments, the router interfaces are flexible and the component design is loose-coupled. This allows customers to customize networks to their needs and promotes adaptability, consistency, and continuity.

Admission Control Based on QoS for Third Generation Broadband Mobile Communication Systems

In this paper, a novel admission scheme is proposed which provides high degrees of quality of service (QoS) guarantees for multimedia traffic carried in mobile networks. The proposed scheme combines the admission control and bandwidth reservation to guarantee QoS requirements. It considers both local information and remote information to determine whether to accept or reject a connection. In order to embody the characteristics of the algorithms proposed in the article, two traditional algorithms of admission control are used for comparison. In the end of the paper the simulation analyses are given and the results show that the proposed algorithm can adjust the bandwidth according to the current status of networks and decrease the probability of connections forcibly dropped. The most important thing is that the algorithm is based on the multimedia communications and can guarantee the QoS of real time connections through decreasing the bandwidth of non real time connections.

Optimal Design of Broadband Loaded Wire Antennas Based on Genetic Algorithm

This paper, using the frequency bandwidth, where both the gain and the VSWR (Voltage Standing Wave Ratio) of a monopole can satisfy the design requirement, as object function, mainly describes the process, in which the load locations, the matching network topology and their component values are optimized by the AGA (Adaptive Genetic Algorithm), to achieve a gain more than -2 dB in horizontal direction and a VSWR less than 3 in bandwidth as wide as possible. Moreover the design results are presented for monopoles with two concentrated loadings. It shows that the AGA is an effective method for designing wideband antennas.

SDN-Based Broadband Network for Cloud Services

Over-the-top services and cloud services have created great challenges for telecom operators. To better meet the requirements of cloud services, we propose a decoupled network architecture. Software-defined networking/network function virtualization （SDN/ NFV） will be vital in the construction of cloud-oriented broadband infrastructure, especially within data centers and for intercon nection between data centers. We also propose introducing SDN/NFV in the broadband access network in order to realize a virtu- alized residential gateway （VRG）. We discuss the deployment modes of VRG.

Security of Broadband Access Network

Due to the rapid development of broadband access technologies, the broadband access networks have wider and wider application. However, with the development, the security issue became a public concern. Under the environment of access network, customers, access equipment and networks all face various threats, especially those from the user side. Such technologies and solutions as port positioning, fraud prevention on Medium Access Control (MAC) addresses and monitoring of illegal services might be the solution to the security problem existing in the current networks.

ZTE Selected by BelTelecom for GPON National Broadband Network Project

ZTE Corporation announced on May 30, 2011 that it had won BelTelecom＇s national broadband network project in Belarus.

北京多频段闪电三维定位网及一次雷暴过程的闪电时空演化特征

北京多频段闪电三维定位网(Beijing Broadband Lightning NETwork,简称BLNET)是一个研究和业务相结合的区域性全闪三维定位网。2015年,对BLNET硬件、站网布局及定位算法等方面进行了更新升级,提高了传感器的灵敏度,提升了软件的运算效率和站网的探测性能。升级后的BLNET不仅具备了对云闪、地闪脉冲类型的快速识别和电流峰值估算等功能,也实现了对闪电辐射源脉冲的三维实时定位,以及通道可分辨的闪电放电过程精细定位。对2017年7月7日一次雷暴过程的闪电辐射源脉冲实时三维定位结果分析表明,这次雷暴过程一共观测到11902次闪电,以云闪为主,地闪占总闪的28%,正地闪较少,仅占总地闪的5%,在雷暴成熟期,最大闪电频数高达927 flashes(6 min)^-1。通过对比分析闪电辐射源位置和对应时刻的雷达回波,发现辐射源基本集中在强回波范围内。对一次正地闪的精细定位表明,该正地闪初始阶段表现出明显的预击穿过程,闪电辐射源的始发位置位于海拔高度约5.4 km,随后通道向上发展,在约10 km高度,通道开始沿着水平发展。对一次负地闪的精细定位表明,初始阶段放电首先从约7.1 km高度处始发,通道向南水平发展,同时部分负先导分支向下发展,约38 ms后,通道短暂停止发展,17 ms后,通道始发处重新激发。以上结果表明,BLNET不仅具备对整个雷暴生命史闪电活动的三维实时定位和监测,而且可以实现对闪电三维放电通道的精细定位。

PACKET ROUTING ALGORITHM FOR LEO SATELLITE CONSTELLATION NETWORK

A novel distributed packet routing algorithm for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite networks based on spiderweb topology is presented. The algorithm gives the shortest path with very low computational complexity and without on-board routing tables, which is suitable and practical for on-board processing. Simulation results show its practicability and feasibility.

Broadband IP Stream Transmission Experiments over Global and Long Distance Networks

Super High Definition (SHD) movies were successfully transmitted as streaming contents at about 300 Mbps for the first time over a long distance IP network (more than 3,000 km), in conjunction with the experimental verification of traffic control and scalable multicast technologies.

Forward link outage performance of aeronautical broadband satellite communications

High-throughput satellites(HTSs) play an important role in future millimeter-wave(mm Wave) aeronautical communication to meet high speed and broad bandwidth requirements. This paper investigates the outage performance of an aeronautical broadband satellite communication system’s forward link, where the feeder link from the gateway to the HTS uses free-space optical(FSO) transmission and the user link from the HTS to aircraft operates at the mm Wave band. In the user link, spot beam technology is exploited at the HTS and a massive antenna array is deployed at the aircraft. We first present a location-based beamforming(BF) scheme to maximize the expected output signal-to-noise ratio(SNR) of the forward link with the amplify-and-forward(AF) protocol,which turns out to be a phased array. Then, by supposing that the FSO feeder link follows Gamma-Gamma fading whereas the mm Wave user link experiences shadowed Rician fading, we take the influence of the phase error into account, and derive the closed-form expression of the outage probability(OP) for the considered system. To gain further insight, a simple asymptotic OP expression at a high SNR is provided to show the diversity order and coding gain. Finally, numerical simulations are conducted to confirm the validity of the theoretical analysis and reveal the effects of phase errors on the system outage performance.

Optical local area network emulations over Ethernet passive optical networks:A survey

As a promising solution to efficiently achieving fiber to the home （FTTH）, Ethernet passive optical network （EPON） is currently improved to provide intercommunication among customers, together with normal traffic delivery, via optical local area network emulation. It is a new research direction and expected to enhance the normal EPON performances. The purpose of this article is to review the state-of -the-art solutions to emulating optical local area networks （OLANs） over EPON. We discuss the major problems involved, e.g., network architecture, control mechanisms, and other potential enhancements. We also outline areas for future researches.

Widely tunable all-optical wavelength converter based on four-wave mixing using two orthogonally polarized pumps

The principle of broad-band orthogonal-pump (BOP) four-wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifiers is analyzed in theory. The conversion efficiency reduces rapidly as the detuning of wavelength between the signal and pump increase which can be solved by introducing a BOP method. The constant conversion efficiency and signal-to-noise ratio are obtained over a large wavelength detuning range. The wavelength conversion efficiency with variation smaller than 3.88 dB over 52-nm range has been experimentally demonstrated by using BOP, with the 10-GHz output of distributed feedback/electro-absorption modulator as signal. Conventional single-pump scheme is also performed for comparison and the experimental results fit well with the theory.

A novel repetition space-time coding scheme for mobile FSO systems

Considering the influence of more random atmospheric turbulence, worse pointing errors and highly dynamic link on the transmission performance of mobile multiple-input multiple-output （MIMO） free space optics （FSO） communica- tion systems, this paper establishes a channel model for the mobile platform. Based on the combination of Alamouti space-time code and time hopping ultra-wide band （TH-UWB） communications, a novel repetition space-time coding （RSTC） method for mobile 2x2 free-space optical communications with pulse position modulation （PPM） is devel- oped. In particular, two decoding methods of equal gain combining （EGC） maximum likelihood detection （MLD） and correlation matrix detection （CMD） are derived. When a quasi-static fading and weak turbulence channel model are considered, simulation results show that whether the channel state information （CSI） is known or not, the coding sys- tem demonstrates more significant performance of the symbol error rate （SER） than the uncoding. In other words, transmitting diversity can be achieved while conveying the information only through the time delays of the modulated signals transmitted from different antennas. CMD has almost the same effect of signal combining with maximal ratio combining （MRC）. However, when the channel correlation increases, SER performance of the coding 2×2 system de- grades significantly.