Fiber-wireless fiwi access networks challenges and opportunities pdf

Specifically, the path to a gateway will be selected based on its computed delay, whereas the path to an external buffer is chosen by taking both the delay and size of the external buffer into account.

In [ 22 ], a low-cost MMF network was experimentally tested to demonstrate the feasibility accesd indoor radio-over-MMF networks for nnetworks in-building coverage of second-generation and third-generation cellular radio networks as well as IEEE As a consequence, the out-of-order packets deteriorate the performance of the transmission control protocol TCP. Specifically, the OLT maintains two watermarks for the traffic load at each ONU, one low watermark and one high watermark.

In particular, energy generation and distribution fiber-wwireless play a crucial role. Subsequently, for each pair of router and gateway a single or alternatively for load balancing minimum-weight path s is are computed. The optical switches have full wavelength conversion capability and interconnect the APs and CO by means of shared point-to-point lightpaths.

The framework comprises two parts. Apart from capacity, one of the major differences between the optical and wireless parts of FiWi access networks is the fact that optical wired links are much more reliable than their wireless counterparts, whose transmission characteristics depend on a number of different parameters.

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Privacy Overview This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Privacy Overview. Necessary Always Enabled. A given wireless mesh source node uses this information for computation of the minimum delay path to the OLT. Not only do the required tunable transmitters add to the complexity and cost of each ONU but also might optical amplifiers become necessary to compensate for the coupling and insertion losses of the inserted combiner and AWG, thereby violating the unpowered nature of PONs and cost-sensitivity of access networks in general.

We refer the interested reader to [ ] for more detailed information on various techniques to lower the latency of NG-PON based smart grid communications and mobile backhaul infrastructures.

Furthermore, we discuss service, application, business, and operation related aspects, which motivate access technology to move into a substantially different direction in the long run than continued capacity provisioning. View at Google Scholar A. RoF networks have been studied for many years as an approach to integrate optical fiber and wireless networks. Tselikas Journal of Lightwave Technology Among others, broadband enables the emergence of business models, processes, and opporttunities as well as improved goods and services.

Acccess paper has citations. Availability is in general affected by many factors and is an important parameter in the service level agreement SLA between network operators and customers. More precisely, if the primary gateway fails, then all the paths to that gateway become stale and packets destined for the primary gateway are rerouted through live PGG paths.

Consequently, the CO must be able to assign channels quickly and efficiently by using one or more wavelength channels on the fiber ring to accommodate multiple services such as WLAN and cellular radio network. To mitigate this problem, the authors proposed to use a so-called hop offset. The inter-ONU traffic from all ONUs is combined into one fiber by means of a passive combiner, which is attached to one of two input ports of an arrayed-waveguide grating AWG. In FiWi networks, traffic may go from wireless end-users to the Internet or from one wireless client to another wireless client.

However, availability-aware routing is less bandwidth-efficient than the shortest path routing due to an increased mean number of hops. To enable loss-free transport of high-priority traffic across the OBS core network, each OBS network node is assigned a number of local wavelength challenbes that are dedicated to the transmission of high-priority traffic.

To better understand the rationale behind the vision of FiWi access networks, we first describe related research topics and then define FiWi access networks as a fiber-wirelexs research area in the following.

More specifically, the OLT is equipped with an array of fixed-tuned transmitters and an array of fixed-tuned receivers, each operating on a different dedicated wavelength channel, for transmitting and receiving data to and from the ONUs. Beside economic and regulatory issues, the new key challenges arising in femtocell deployments are i interference coordination, ii cell association and biasing, iii mobility and soft handover, and iv self-organizing networks SONs [ 89 ].

The primary gateway for a given mesh router is the gateway networls the minimum delay path. Multipath routing and its implications have been studied in greater detail in [ 54 ]. Wireless and optical access networks can be thought of as complementary. Showing of 95 extracted citations. FiWi research focuses on the physical PHYMAC, and network layers with the goal to develop and investigate low-cost enabling FiWi technologies as well as layer-2 and layer-3 protocols and algorithms.

In the former case, the throughput of FiWi networks is limited by the bandwidth bottleneck and interferences of communications in the wireless subnetwork. Challengss has been receiving an increasing amount of attention by other key players, for example, the Government of China most recently.

In the event of one or more FiWi network failures, the risk list of affected mesh routers is updated accordingly. Another important trend is the convergence of mobile cellular networks and WSNs in order to support machine-to-machine M2M communications. Otherwise, excess traffic needs to be dropped.

For each polling cycle, the central controller schedules the received bandwidth requests based on their traffic class and informs the WiMAX subscriber stations about the resultant upstream transmission schedule. In fact, the throughput-delay ratio of the wireless front-end increases for a growing number of multiple-radio mesh routers.

In the downstream direction, the central hub of GROW-Net deploys a tunable laser, which can reach different optical opportunitiies by opportunitues the laser to the respective wavelength channel supported by the intended optical terminal.

Among other mobility-based UE distribution techniques, traffic steering represents a promising approach for both load balancing and minimization of unnecessary handovers in HetNets [ 93 ].

We discuss the different threads of FiWi access networking research and the rationale behind their different design objectives. In [ 22 ], a low-cost MMF network was experimentally tested to demonstrate the feasibility of indoor radio-over-MMF networks for the in-building coverage of second-generation and third-generation cellular radio networks as well as IEEE opportuniyies If a failure occurs, the risk list is updated and subsequent packets are fiber-wirsless.

Note that dependability has many facets and includes several important system properties such as reliability, availability, survivability, and safety. In the downlink, pilots and data are transmitted to the mobile terminals, whereas the uplink is used to feed channel state information from the mobile terminals back to the CU to adapt the precoding filter.

In [ 81 ], a novel MAC protocol for FiWi access networks to efficiently carry the ever-increasing amount of video traffic was proposed and investigated.

View at Scopus P. Each ONU deploys a pair of fixed-tuned oppoetunities and fixed-tuned receiver at dedicated upstream and downstream wavelength channels. Optical fiber does not go everywhere, but where it does go, it provides a huge amount of available bandwidth.

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Toward this goal, fiber together with next-generation wireless broadband technologies will play an increasingly vital role in future broadband access networks.