On the vision of complete fixed-mobile convergence

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 2343-2357

  Ali, Mohamed A ^a   Ellinas, Georgios ^b   Erkan, Hasan ^c   Hadjiantonis, Antonis ^d   Dorsinville, Roger ^a  

^a City College of the City University of New York   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^c SUNY MARITIME COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NICOSIA   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

FiWi; optical access networks; optical wireless; passive optical networks

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TECHNOLOGY; ARCHITECTURAL MODELS; FIXED MOBILE CONVERGENCE; HYBRID FIBER; IMPLEMENTATION METHODOLOGY; INDEPENDENT MODEL; INTEGRATED ARCHITECTURE; INTEGRATED MODELS; KEY FEATURE; LONG-TERM EVOLUTION; MOBILE ACCESS; MOBILE BROADBAND; MOBILE PLATFORM; NEW DIRECTIONS; OPTICAL ACCESS NETWORKS; OPTICAL WIRELESS; PACKET-BASED; PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORKS; RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS; RESEARCH ACTIVITIES; TECHNICAL REQUIREMENT;

BROADBAND NETWORKS; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

PASSIVE NETWORKS;

EID: 77955547936     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2010.2050861     Document Type: Article

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