Hybrid Wireless-Optical Broadband Access Network (WOBAN): Network Planning and Setup

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 12-21

  Sarkar, Suman ^a   Mukherjee, Biswanath ^a   Yen, Hong Hsu ^b   Dixit, Sudhir ^c  

^a University of California Davis   (United States)

^b SHIH HSIN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NOKIA SIEMENS NETWORKS   (Finland)

Author keywords

Broadband access; channel interference; optical network; optimization; simulated annealing; wireless network

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008048855     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSACOCN.2008.032207     Document Type: Article

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