Nowadays, free space optics (FSO) is becoming popular and is very competitive to the fiber
optic technology for providing broadband services at very high data rates without the …

Abstract Currently, Internet of Things (IoT) and use of Information & Communication
Technology (ICT) have gained a lot of attraction for developing the smart cities. Wavelength …

Nowadays, service reliability, operation cost, transmission latency of optical access networks
are the major challenging issues that need to be addressed while planning and developing …

Hybrid wireless–wireline access networks (HWWANs), which allow coordinated and
simultaneous use of wireless and wireline interfaces, are a promising network architecture …

To support high bandwidth demands, optical networks are widely used for the past few
decades. In this manuscript, the author proposes the pure fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) based …

A hybrid wireless-wireline access network (HWWAN) is an integrated network infrastructure
that combines wireless and wired technologies to offer users seamless and reliable …

The surging numbers of wireless devices and the accompanying exponential growth of user
traffic have led edge and fog computing to become essential components in future access …

The exponentially rising data volume and the advancement in multimedia technologies such
as ultra-high definition online video streaming requires enormous bandwidth with reduced …

This paper presents an investigation on the power consumption of fronthaul Passive Optical
Networks (PONs) in the context of 5G/6G networks. The significance of this research is by …

In this paper, a reliable scheme based on star topology is proposed by introducing group
protection. Depending on interconnecting fibers, all optical network units (ONUs) are divided …