@inproceedings{0217ff5ff51b4688a7c8cb309bf17f0a,
title = "The audacity of fiber-wireless (FiWi) networks",
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.",
keywords = "EPON, FTTH, FiWi, MAC, Optical-wireless integration, Path selection, QoS, R&f, RPR, RoF, WMN, WiFi, WiMAX",
author = "Martin Maier and Navid Ghazisaidi and Martin Reisslein",
year = "2009",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-04648-3_2",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "3642046479",
series = "Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering",
pages = "16--35",
booktitle = "AccessNets - Third International Conference on Access Networks, AccessNets 2008, Revised Papers",
note = "3rd International Conference on Access Networks, AccessNets 2008 ; Conference date: 15-10-2008 Through 17-10-2008",
}