Optical fiber-based distributed antenna systems, components, and related methods for monitoring and configuring thereof

A wireless communication system, comprising:

• a plurality of remote antenna units, each RAU being configured to establish a wireless coverage area;
• communication components, comprising:
• a downlink base transceiver station (BTS) interface configured to receive downlink electrical radio frequency (RF) signals from at least one BTS on at least one communication downlink;
• at least one optical interface module (OIM) configured to:
• receive and convert the downlink electrical RF signals from the downlink BTS interface into downlink Radio-over-Fiber (RoF) signals on the at least one communication downlink;
• and
• receive and convert uplink RoF signals from the plurality of remote antenna units (RAUs) into uplink electrical RF signals on at least one communication uplink;
• an uplink BTS interface configured to receive and communicate the uplink electrical RF signals from the at least one communication uplink to the at least one BTS;
• and
• a controller configured to predict the failure of at least one of the communications components based on receiving alarm information from at least one of the communication components defining at least one condition indicative of a predictive failure in the at least one of the communication components.