Toward an efficient C-RAN optical fronthaul for the future networks: A tutorial on technologies, requirements, challenges, and solutions

IA Alimi, AL Teixeira, PP Monteiro - … Communications Surveys & …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The exponential traffic growth, demand for high speed wireless data communications, as
well as incessant deployment of innovative wireless technologies, services, and …

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 …

SIMO optical wireless links with nonzero boresight pointing errors over M modeled turbulence channels

GK Varotsos, HE Nistazakis, MI Petkovic… - Optics …, 2017 - Elsevier
Over the last years terrestrial free-space optical (FSO) communication systems have
demonstrated an increasing scientific and commercial interest in response to the growing …

Performance analysis of 5G and beyond mixed THz/FSO relaying communication systems

IA Alimi, PP Monteiro - Optics & Laser Technology, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper explores the potential of relay-assisted transmission to mitigate fading in free-
space optical (FSO) systems. Our investigation focuses on assessing the performance of a …

Challenges and opportunities of optical wireless communication technologies

I Alimi, A Shahpari, A Sousa, R Ferreira… - Optical …, 2017 - books.google.com
In this chapter, we present various opportunities of using optical wireless communication
(OWC) technologies in each sector of optical communication networks. Moreover …

Multi-UAV trajectory optimization considering collisions in FSO communication networks

S Song, M Choi, DE Ko… - IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a trajectory optimization algorithm for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAVs) is investigated for free space optic (FSO) based wireless communication networks …

Analysis of multiuser mixed RF/FSO relay networks for performance improvements in cloud computing-based radio access networks (CC-RANs)

IA Alimi, PP Monteiro, AL Teixeira - Optics Communications, 2017 - Elsevier
The key paths toward the fifth generation (5G) network requirements are towards centralized
processing and small-cell densification systems that are implemented on the cloud …

On the performance of dual-hop mixed RF/FSO wireless communication system in urban area over aggregated exponentiated Weibull fading channels with pointing …

Y Wang, P Wang, X Liu, T Cao - Optics Communications, 2018 - Elsevier
The performance of decode-and-forward dual-hop mixed radio frequency/free-space optical
system in urban area is studied. The RF link is modeled by the Nakagami-m distribution and …

[HTML][HTML] Enabling optical wired and wireless technologies for 5G and beyond networks

IA Alimi, A Tavares, C Pinho, AM Abdalla… - … and applications of …, 2019 - intechopen.com
The emerging fifth-generation mobile communications are envisaged to support massive
number of deployment scenarios based on the respective use case requirements. The …

Performance analysis of space-air-ground integrated network (SAGIN) over an arbitrarily correlated multivariate FSO channel

IA Alimi, AO Mufutau, AL Teixeira… - Wireless Personal …, 2018 - Springer
The space-air-ground integrated network (SAGIN) system interconnect several networks in
order to achieve a large network topology that is capable of efficient sharing of global …