Title :
Hybrid wireless-optical broadband access networks
Author :
Mukherjee, Biswanath
Author_Institution :
Univ. of California, Davis, CA
Abstract :
Hybrid wireless-optical broadband access networks (WOBAN) show excellent promise for future access network. WOBAN has attractive features such as flexibility, robustness, and high capacity. This paper summarizes the architectures, features and research issues in WOBAN.
Keywords :
broadband networks; microwave photonics; radio access networks; WOBAN; future access network; wireless-optical broadband access networks; Central office; Costs; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber networks; Optical network units; Passive optical networks; Robustness; Telecommunication network reliability; Wireless mesh networks; Wireless networks;
Conference_Titel :
IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2008. LEOS 2008. 21st Annual Meeting of the
Conference_Location :
Acapulco
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1931-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1932-6
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2008.4688860
