Abstract
A plethora of enabling optical and wireless technologies have been emerging that can be used to build future-proof bimodal fiberwireless (FiWi) broadband access networks. After overviewing key enabling radio-over-fiber (RoF) and radio-and-fiber (R&F) technologies and briefly surveying the state of the art of FiWi networks, we introduce an Ethernet-based access-metro FiWi network, called SuperMAN, that integrates next-generation WiFi and WiMAX networks with WDMenhanced EPON and RPR networks. Throughout the paper we pay close attention to the technical challenges and opportunities of FiWi networks, but also elaborate on their societal benefits and potential to shift the current research focus from optical-wireless networking to the exploitation of personal and in-home computing facilities to create new unforeseen services and applications as we are about to enter the Petabyte age.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering |
| Pages | 16-35 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Volume | 6 LNICST |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2009 |
| Event | 3rd International Conference on Access Networks, AccessNets 2008 - Las Vegas, NV, United States Duration: Oct 15 2008 → Oct 17 2008 |
Publication series
| Name | Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering |
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| Volume | 6 LNICST |
| ISSN (Print) | 18678211 |
Other
| Other | 3rd International Conference on Access Networks, AccessNets 2008 |
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| Country | United States |
| City | Las Vegas, NV |
| Period | 10/15/08 → 10/17/08 |
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Keywords
- EPON
- FiWi
- FTTH
- MAC
- Optical-wireless integration
- Path selection
- QoS
- R&f
- RoF
- RPR
- WiFi
- WiMAX
- WMN
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Networks and Communications
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The audacity of fiber-wireless (FiWi) networks. / Maier, Martin; Ghazisaidi, Navid; Reisslein, Martin.
Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. Vol. 6 LNICST 2009. p. 16-35 (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering; Vol. 6 LNICST).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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