Contact Name: Prof. Giovanni Tartarini
About the speaker
Federico Forni received the bachelor degree in electronic and telecommunication engineering from the Alma Mater Studiorum, Bologna, Italy, in 2011. He performed his master thesis project at the Electro-Optical Communication group of the Eindhoven University of Technology (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) on photonics integrated circuits within Erasmus exchange program in 2013. He received the master degree (cum laude) in telecommunication engineering from the Alma Mater Studiorum, (Bologna, Italy) in 2014. Since 2014, he has been working towards the Ph.D. degree at the Electro-Optical Communication group of the Eindhoven University of Technology within the FlexCom project. His research interests include home area networks, plastic optical fibers and radio-over-fiber techniques.
Abstract
In the last few years, the customer demand for higher throughput has constantly risen, in particular from wireless devices, which generate most of the Internet traffic. The in-home network cannot be the bottleneck for the consumers’ experience. A cost-effective converged broadband in-home connectivity is the next issue to resolve. In this lecture, firstly, an overview of the radio over fiber techniques and in-home networks is given. Then, one of the most promising technologies able to fulfill the in-home consumers’ needs is presented: the plastic optical fiber (POF). Its main parameters and applications for in-home networks are defined. Finally, the latest results from the FlexCom project are shown. In this project, we focus on finding low-cost, low-power and broadband solutions for the in-home network convergence through the baseband and radio multi-standard transmission over POF. Examples of the POF capabilities are given through the recent results of our project.