Fiber-Wireless Convergence in Next-Generation Communication Networks: Systems, Architectures, and Management (Paperback)

Introduction.- Future Radio Access, WiFi-LTE, LTE advanced:the path to 5G.- Evolution and Trends of Broadband Access Technologies and Fiber-Wireless Systems.- The Benefits of Convergence through Fiber Wireless Integration and Networking.- Analog and Digitized Radio-over-Fiber.- Overview of standardization for D-RoF.- Wireless delivery of over 100Gb/s mm-wave signal in the W-band.- Systems Challenges for SDN in Fiber Wireless Networks.- Architectural Evolution and Novel Design of Fiber-Wireless Access Networks.- Advanced architectures for PON supporting Fi-Wi convergence.- BBU Hotelling in Centralized Radio Access Networks.- Rethink Ring and Young: Green and Soft RAN for 5G.- Next Generation PoP with functional convergence re-distributions.- Coordinated Multi-Point (CoMP) Systems.- Converged Wireless Access/Optical Metro Networks in Support of Cloud and Mobile Cloud Services deploying SDN Principles.- Conclusion and Future Topics.