New Perspectives on Future Smart FiWi Networks: Scalability, Reliability, and Energy Efficiency

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 1045-1072

  Liu, Jiajia ^a   Guo, Hongzhi ^a   Nishiyama, Hiroki ^b   Ujikawa, Hirotaka ^c   Suzuki, Kenichi ^c   Kato, Nei ^b  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

5G; energy efficiency; Fiber Wireless; FiWi; hybrid opticalwireless network; ingsR F; QoS; reliability; RoF; scalability; WOBAN

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONSERVATION; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; OPTICAL FIBERS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RELIABILITY; SCALABILITY;

FIBER-WIRELESS; FIBERWIRELESS (FIWI); FIWI; INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT); OPTICAL FIBER NETWORKS; OPTICAL WIRELESS; WIRELESS ACCESS NETWORKS; WOBAN;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84971552249     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2015.2500960     Document Type: Article

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