Research Article
The Audacity of Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) Networks
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-04648-3_2, author={Martin Maier and Navid Ghazisaidi and Martin Reisslein}, title={The Audacity of Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) Networks}, proceedings={AccessNets. Third International Conference on Access Networks, AccessNets 2008, Las Vegas, NV, USA, October 15-17, 2008. Revised Papers}, proceedings_a={ACCESSNETS}, year={2012}, month={5}, keywords={EPON FiWi FTTH MAC optical-wireless integration path selection QoS R\&F RoF RPR WiFi WiMAX WMN}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-04648-3_2} }- Martin Maier
Navid Ghazisaidi
Martin Reisslein
Year: 2012
The Audacity of Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) Networks
ACCESSNETS
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04648-3_2
Abstract
A plethora of enabling optical and wireless technologies have been emerging that can be used to build future-proof bimodal fiber-wireless (FiWi) broadband access networks. After overviewing key enabling radio-over-fiber (RoF) and radio-and-fiber (R&F) technologies and briefly surveying the state of the art of FiWi networks, we introduce an Ethernet-based access-metro FiWi network, called SuperMAN, that integrates next-generation WiFi and WiMAX networks with WDM-enhanced EPON and RPR networks. Throughout the paper we pay close attention to the technical challenges and opportunities of FiWi networks, but also elaborate on their societal benefits and potential to shift the current research focus from optical-wireless networking to the exploitation of personal and in-home computing facilities to create new unforeseen services and applications as we are about to enter the Petabyte age.