2nd International ICST Workshop on Wireless Grids

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Architecture to Integrate Broadband Access Networks and Wireless Grids

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-11733-6_13,
        author={Jo\"{a}o Pereira},
        title={Architecture to Integrate Broadband Access Networks and Wireless Grids},
        proceedings={2nd International ICST Workshop on Wireless Grids},
        proceedings_a={WIRELESS GRIDS},
        year={2012},
        month={6},
        keywords={Wireless Grids Access Networks Broadband Access Technologies Techno-economic Cost Model},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-11733-6_13}
    }
    
  • João Pereira
    Year: 2012
    Architecture to Integrate Broadband Access Networks and Wireless Grids
    WIRELESS GRIDS
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-11733-6_13
João Pereira1,*
  • 1: Instituto Politécnico de Bragança (IPB)
*Contact email: jprp@ipb.pt

Abstract

Today, the access networks face two main challenges: the increasing bandwidth demand and mobility trends. All this will require fundamental changes to the operations of access networks, the functionality of network nodes and the architecture itself. By other side, the evolution of computing and communication networks toward decentralized and distributed systems implies that all the intelligence is on the edge nodes of the networks. Integrating wireless devices with the traditional wired grid infrastructure will allow the access (transfer, processing, etc) to the information that is now scattered across the different devices. In this paper, we present a new architecture and a cost model to support the new requirements of broadband access (fixed and nomadic users) and wireless grids in an integrated way