Current optical technologies for wireless access

2009 10th International Conference on Telecommunications, ConTEL 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 7-17

  Leitgeb, E ^a   Awan, M S ^a   Brandl, P ^a   Plank, T ^a   Capsoni, C ^b   Nebuloni, R ^b   Javornik, T ^c   Kandus, G ^c   Muhammad, S Sheikh ^d   Ghassemlooy, F ^e   Loschnigg M ^a   Nadeem, F ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF COMPUTER AND EMERGING SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

^e NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Broadband Wireless; Free Space Optics; Last Mile Access; Network Architectures; Optical Wireless Systems; Reliability and availability

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND WIRELESS; FREE-SPACE OPTICS; LAST MILE ACCESS; OPTICAL WIRELESS SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY AND AVAILABILITY;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTS; HYBRID SYSTEMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 70449515175     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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