5G is the next cellular generation and is expected to quench the growing thirst for taxing
data rates and to enable the Internet of Things. Focused research and standardization work …

Small cell networks (SCNs) are envisaged as a key technology enabling the fifth-generation
(5G) wireless communication system to address the challenge of rising mobile data demand …

Historically, research efforts in optical networks have focused on the goal of continuously
increasing capacity rather than on lowering end-to-end latency. This slowly started to …

In this paper, we study the cell planning problem for a two-tier cellular network containing
two types of base stations (BSs), ie, with fiber backhaul, referred to as wired BSs (W-BSs) …

Wireless network virtualization has attracted great attention from both academia and
industry. Another emerging technology for next-generation wireless networks is in-band full …

Toward 6G: A New Era of Convergence [Invited] Page 1 Toward 6G: A New Era of Convergence
[Invited] Martin Maier Optical Zeitgeist Laboratory, INRS, Montréal, QC, Canada …

The continuous growth in mobile network traffic driven by the extensive range of new user
applications, for instance, interactive e-learning, social networking sites, remote medical …

In this paper, we shed some light on the latency and reliability issues of mobile backhaul
networks, which have been largely ignored in the past, and examine their impact on LTE-A …

High-speed cellular technologies require low-latency and high-capacity optical networks.
The Centralized Radio Access Network (C-RAN) architecture offers a cost-effective solution …

In this paper we propose an optimization framework for multiple deployment of PON in a
wide region with very large number of users, with different bit rate demands, serviced by …