A method for managing resources of a converged fixed access and mobile radio telecommunications network, some of the resources being implemented in a virtualized and remote form in the network, optical resources of the network being allocated between an optical router and a plurality of optical modems of the network is disclosed. A module for centralized management of the mobile radio resources of the network implements receiving a performance indicator for a mobile radio part of the network transmitted by a base station of the network connected to one of the optical modems and/or by a module of remote virtualized radio functions in the network; estimating the optical resource requirements of the mobile radio part from the performance indicator, providing information representative of the optical resource requirements; and transmitting the information of the optical resource requirements to a module for centralized management of the fixed access and optical resources.

This application provides a data transmission method, a radio frequency unit, a baseband unit, and a communication system. The baseband unit includes: a multi-wavelength integrated light source, configured to generate a first optical carrier and a second optical carrier that have different wavelengths; a first modulator, configured to modulate downlink data sent to the first radio frequency unit to the first optical carrier, to obtain a first downlink optical signal; a second modulator, configured to modulate downlink data sent to the second radio frequency unit to the second optical carrier, to obtain a second downlink optical signal; and a multiplexer/demultiplexer, configured to multiplex the first downlink optical signal and the second downlink optical signal into a downlink combined optical signal and send the downlink combined optical signal.

A method performed by at least one processor of a network node operating in a wireless communication network includes receiving data associated with a plurality of users. The method further includes performing, by a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) coder, a DFT transformation on the data associated with the plurality of users. The method further includes performing, on the output of the DFT coder by a subcarrier mapper, subcarrier mapping that maps the output of the DFT coder to a set of subcarriers. The method further includes performing an inverse DFT (IDFT) on the output of the subcarrier mapper. The method further includes transmitting, over the wireless communication network, the output of the IDFT as a DFT spread optical frequency division multiplexing (DFT-s-OFDM) signal.

Provided are a method and system for allocating wavelength channels in a Passive Optical Network (PON), and an Optical Line Terminal (OLT). In the method, an OLT may acquire pre-set wavelength channel priority information and Optical Network Unit (ONU) priority information; and the wavelength channel priority information and the ONU priority information may be sent to each ONU to enable each ONU to selectively access a corresponding wavelength channel according to the wavelength channel priority information and the ONU priority information based on a pre-set rule.

A system for sharing an optical fiber for a cloud-based wired and wireless access network, includes: a centralization device to generate summing signals by respectively summing multi-channel optical signals input from a wireless donor unit group and by summing multi-channel wired signals input from a wired donor unit group or generate wavelength-converted signals by wavelength-converting the multi-channel optical signals or the multi-channel wired signals, multiplex the summing signals or the wavelength-converted signals, and distribute the summing signals or the wavelength-converted signals to a plurality of devices connected to the centralization device via a shared optical fiber; and a distribution device group to generate corresponding optical signals by demultiplexing the summing signals or the wavelength-converted signals in units of wavelengths, and transmit the corresponding optical signals or the multi-channel wired signals to a wireless remote unit group and/or a wired remote unit group via a preset optical fiber.

A communication method, which is executed by a communication apparatus among a plurality of communication apparatuses connected in multiple stages includes steps of acquiring downlink optical signals having one or more wavelengths including a predetermined reception wavelength from a previous stage and transmitting a communication situation signal or an allocation request signal of the communication apparatus to the previous stage using uplink optical signals having one or more wavelengths including a predetermined transmission wavelength, selecting a downlink optical signal having the reception wavelength, acquiring an allocation control signal indicating allocation of the reception wavelength and the transmission wavelength from the selected downlink optical signal having the reception wavelength, updating the reception wavelength and the transmission wavelength in accordance with the acquired allocation control signal, and transmitting an uplink optical signal having the updated transmission wavelength to the previous stage.

A method performed by at least one processor of a network node operating in a wireless communication network includes receiving data associated with a plurality of users. The method further includes performing, by a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) coder, a DFT transformation on the data associated with the plurality of users. The method further includes performing, on the output of the DFT coder by a subcarrier mapper, subcarrier mapping that maps the output of the DFT coder to a set of subcarriers. The method further includes performing an inverse DFT (IDFT) on the output of the subcarrier mapper. The method further includes transmitting, over the wireless communication network, the output of the IDFT as a DFT spread optical frequency division multiplexing (DFT-s-OFDM) signal.