A survey of opportunities for free space optics in next generation cellular networks

Proceedings - 2011 9th Annual Communication Networks and Services Research Conference, CNSR 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 210-216

  Demers, Frédéric ^a   Yanikomeroglu, Halim ^a   St Hilaire, Marc ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

land mobile radio cellular systems; optical communication

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR WIRELESS NETWORKS; CORE NETWORKS; DATA RATES; EMERGING APPLICATIONS; FREE SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; FREE SPACE OPTICS; HIGH-BANDWIDTH APPLICATION; LAND MOBILE RADIO CELLULAR SYSTEMS; LARGE PARTS; MOBILE USERS; NEXT GENERATION CELLULAR NETWORKS; PUBLIC SWITCHED TELEPHONE NETWORK; RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS; RADIO FREQUENCY CHANNELS;

BANDWIDTH; BASE STATIONS; BROADBAND NETWORKS; CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS; CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; COMMUNICATION; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; RADIO TELEPHONE; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TELEPHONE CIRCUITS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 79959276604     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CNSR.2011.38     Document Type: Conference Paper

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