**Receiver Performance Improvement in Radio over Fiber Network Transmission**

Lisawati Sainawi and Khadijah Ismail

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.68583

#### **Abstract**

Nowadays, wireless demand is raised rapidly since the number of mobile‐cellular tele‐ phone and broadband internet are springing up. Thus, many base stations (BS) and a lot of money are needed to satisfy the demand. Radio over fiber (RoF) is the solution to this problem since it can operate a lot of BSs that connected to central station (CS) by using optical fiber, as well as offering cost‐effective solution. Due to some factors, received sig‐ nals of RoF tend to be in a low quality. Those factors will lead to some problems such as high value of bit error rate (BER), low value of Q factor, and the receiver could not oper‐ ate in high data rate network. Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) network can be one of the solutions of those problems where different signals are transmitted through a single‐mode fiber. Bit error rate must be decreased to a certain value, and the Q factor should be increased. The design of RoF will be simulated by using Optisystem software. The performance of RoF's receiver is measured and analyzed based on the obtained BER, value of Q factor and height of opening of eye diagram.

**Keywords:** radio over fiber, performance, wavelength division multiplexing, receiver, bit error rate, Q factor, eye diagram, optical fiber, eye pattern
