Towards green optical/wireless in-building networks: Radio-over-fiber

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 3545-3556

  Gowda, Apurva S ^a   Dhaini, Ahmad R ^a   Kazovsky, Leonid G ^a   Yang, Hejie ^b   Abraha, Solomon T ^b   Ng'Oma, Anthony ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Corning Incorporated ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Energy efficiency; in building networks; optical communication; radio over fiber; wireless LAN

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; FIBERS; NEXT GENERATION NETWORKS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

DATA CENTERS; DESIGN AND OPERATIONS; ENERGY EFFICIENT; IN-BUILDING NETWORK; IN-BUILDINGS; MOBILE ACCESS; RADIO-OVER-FIBER (ROF); REMOTE UNITS;

RADIO-OVER-FIBER;

EID: 84906877781     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2014.2315960     Document Type: Article

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