TY - JOUR
T1 - New Perspectives on Future Smart FiWi Networks
T2 - Scalability, Reliability, and Energy Efficiency
AU - Liu, Jiajia
AU - Guo, Hongzhi
AU - Nishiyama, Hiroki
AU - Ujikawa, Hirotaka
AU - Suzuki, Kenichi
AU - Kato, Nei
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61372073, Grant 61373043, Grant 61202394, Grant 61472367, and Grant 61432015.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2016/4
Y1 - 2016/4
N2 - Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) network, as an integration of optical fiber network and wireless access network, has attracted intensive research interest and enjoyed significant growth in its applications over the last two decades. Besides bringing great opportunities for the development of FiWi networks, the new applications and techniques, like the emerging Internet of Things (IoT), raise unprecedented challenges in different aspects of FiWi integration. Based on such observation, we provide in this paper a comprehensive survey of recent progress and ongoing research works in the aspects of network architecture, QoS provisioning, scalability improving, reliability enhancing, energy saving, as well as standardization activities and case studies. Furthermore, new trends and challenging issues on future smart FiWi networks are identified and discussed in details.
AB - Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) network, as an integration of optical fiber network and wireless access network, has attracted intensive research interest and enjoyed significant growth in its applications over the last two decades. Besides bringing great opportunities for the development of FiWi networks, the new applications and techniques, like the emerging Internet of Things (IoT), raise unprecedented challenges in different aspects of FiWi integration. Based on such observation, we provide in this paper a comprehensive survey of recent progress and ongoing research works in the aspects of network architecture, QoS provisioning, scalability improving, reliability enhancing, energy saving, as well as standardization activities and case studies. Furthermore, new trends and challenging issues on future smart FiWi networks are identified and discussed in details.
KW - 5G
KW - FiWi
KW - Fiber-Wireless
KW - QoS
KW - RoF
KW - WOBAN
KW - energy efficiency
KW - hybrid opticalwireless network
KW - ingsR&F
KW - reliability
KW - scalability
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U2 - 10.1109/COMST.2015.2500960
DO - 10.1109/COMST.2015.2500960
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84971552249
SN - 1553-877X
VL - 18
SP - 1045
EP - 1072
JO - IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
JF - IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
IS - 2
M1 - 7331236
ER -
