Convergence of Mobile and Stationary Next-Generation Networks

Chapter coverage includes:

• Fiber–wireless networks: technologies, architectures, and future challenges

• Packet backhaul network

• Point-to-point microwave backhaul

• Fourth-generation broadband: paving the road to Gbit/s with copper

• Dynamic bandwidth allocation in EPON and GPON

• Next-generation ethernet passive optical networks: 10G-EPON

• Power line communications and smart grids

• Signaling for multimedia conferencing in 4G: architecture, evaluation, and issues

• Self-coexistence and security in cognitive radio networks

• Mobile WiMAX

• UWB personal area networks—MIMO extensions

• Next-generation integrated metropolitan-access network: technology integration and wireless convergence

• Resilient burst ring: a novel technology for the next-generation metropolitan area networks

Filled with illustrations and practical examples from industry, this book will be invaluable to engineers and researchers in industry and academia, as well as senior undergraduate and graduate students, marketing and management staff, photonics physicists, and chip designers.