New traffic-generating technologies such as the Internet of Things and continued growth in
mobile traffic are requiring mobile networks to rapidly expand their capacities. However …

The evolution of wireless communication networks supporting emerging broadband services
and applications offers new opportunities for realizing integrated optical and wireless …

We report our recent progress on analog radio-over-fiber technology for mobile fronthaul
applications in this invited talk from two perspectives: capacity expansion and signal quality …

Recent technological advances and deployments are creating a new landscape in access
networks, with an integration of wireless and fiber technologies a key supporting technology …

The next-generation broadband mobile communication is expected to increase capacity by
hundreds to thousands of times com⁃ pared with 5G communication, posing significant …

This paper describes full service access network operator group perspectives on the
feasibility of optical access networks to carry radio access network traffic for the existing and …

Enabling technologies for optical wireless broadband access networks have been explored
and developed with respect to optical components, modules, transmission systems, and …

The trend in broadband access services is shifting from the fixed to the mobile. Accordingly,
the role of the optical access network systems is changing from the fiber-to-the-home/fiber-to …

The introduction of millimeter wave (mm-wave) frequency bands for cellular communications
with significantly larger bandwidths compared to their sub-6 GHz counterparts, the resulting …

In this invited paper, we discuss how optical fibers, the de-facto choice for last-mile
connectivity of radio access network equipment, can rise to the challenges of 5G. We start by …