Toward 5G: FiWi Enhanced LTE-A HetNets with Reliable Low-Latency Fiber Backhaul Sharing and WiFi Offloading

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 690-707

  Beyranvand, Hamzeh ^a,b   Levesque, Martin ^c   Maier, Martin ^d   Salehi, Jawad A ^a   Verikoukis, Christos ^e   Tipper, David ^c  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE   (Canada)

^e CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC DE TELECOMUNICACIONS DE CATALUNYA CTTC   (Spain)

Author keywords

5G; Backhaul awareness; decentralized routing; FiWi access networks; HetNets; infrastructure sharing; PON; reliability; Tactile Internet; WiFi offloading

Indexed keywords

4G MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; 5G MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FIBERS; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; MESH NETWORKING; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK ROUTING; PARETO PRINCIPLE; REDUNDANCY; RELIABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; STANDARDS; WI-FI; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

ACCESS NETWORK; BACKHAUL AWARENESS; DECENTRALIZED ROUTING; HETNETS; INFRASTRUCTURE SHARING; WI-FI OFFLOADING;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 85027676933     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2016.2599780     Document Type: Article

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