Software defined optical networks (SDONs): A comprehensive survey

AS Thyagaturu, A Mercian, MP McGarry… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The emerging software defined networking (SDN) paradigm separates the data plane from
the control plane and centralizes network control in an SDN controller. Applications interact …

Mobility management for femtocells in LTE-advanced: Key aspects and survey of handover decision algorithms

D Xenakis, N Passas, L Merakos… - … surveys & tutorials, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Support of femtocells is an integral part of the Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A)
system and a key enabler for its wide adoption in a broad scale. Femtocells are short-range …

Beyond 100-Gb/s indoor wide field-of-view optical wireless communications

A Gomez, K Shi, C Quintana, M Sato… - IEEE Photonics …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical fiber communication networks can provide terabit aggregate capacities to buildings
and offices within modern cities. Practical wireless systems are orders of magnitude below …

New perspectives on future smart FiWi networks: Scalability, reliability, and energy efficiency

J Liu, H Guo, H Nishiyama, H Ujikawa… - … surveys & tutorials, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) network, as an integration of optical fiber network and wireless access
network, has attracted intensive research interest and enjoyed significant growth in its …

Towards enhanced mobile broadband communications: A tutorial on enabling technologies, design considerations, and prospects of 5G and beyond fixed wireless …

IA Alimi, RK Patel, NJ Muga, AN Pinto, AL Teixeira… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
There has been a growing interconnection across the world owing to various multimedia
applications and services. Fixed wireless access (FWA) is an attractive wireless solution for …

Advances in improving energy efficiency of fiber–wireless access networks: a comprehensive overview

J Lorincz, Z Klarin, D Begusic - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Due to the growing impact of the information and communications technology (ICT) sector
on electricity usage and greenhouse gas emissions, telecommunication networks require …

Recent development on time and wavelength-division multiplexed passive optical network (TWDM-PON) for next-generation passive optical network stage 2 (NG …

S Bindhaiq, ASM Supa, N Zulkifli… - Optical Switching and …, 2015 - Elsevier
The second stage of next-generation passive optical network (NG-PON2) based on time and
wavelength division multiplexed passive optical network (TWDM-PON) was proposed by a …

Key microwave-photonics technologies for next-generation cloud-based radio access networks

C Liu, J Wang, L Cheng, M Zhu… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Several key enabling techniques are introduced for next-generation wireless communication
systems. Small-cell and cloud-RAN systems have been considered as promising solutions …

Wavelength division multiplexed radio over fiber links for 5G fronthaul networks

G Pandey, A Choudhary, A Dixit - IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ever-increasing demand for data rates by mobile users can be fulfilled by radio over
fiber (RoF) combined with spectrally-efficient modulation techniques. Thus, RoF is critical to …

Faster than fiber: over 100-Gb/s signal delivery in fiber wireless integration system

J Yu, X Li, N Chi - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
We summarize several different approaches for the realization of large capacity (> 100Gb/s)
fiber wireless integration system, including optical polarization-division-multiplexing (PDM) …