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The Audacity of Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) Networks

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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.

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  1. Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), 800, Gauchetière West, suite 6900, Montréal, QC, H5A 1K6, Canada

    Martin Maier & Navid Ghazisaidi

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 875706, Tempe, AZ, 85287-5706, USA

    Martin Reisslein

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Maier, M., Ghazisaidi, N., Reisslein, M. (2009). The Audacity of Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) Networks. In: Wang, C. (eds) AccessNets. AccessNets 2008. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 6. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04648-3_2

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