Techno-economic assessment is a fundamental technique engineers use for evaluating new
communications technologies. However, despite the techno-economics of the fifth cellular …

Currently, 5G and the forthcoming 6G mobile communication systems are the most
promising cellular generations expected to beat the growing hunger for bandwidth and …

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 fifth generatin (5G) and the future beyond 5G (6G) radio access networks (RANs), the cost
of fronthaul deployment is a main challenge for mobile network operators. Depending on …

Rapid advancements in the development of smart terminals and infrastructure, coupled with
a wide range of applications with complex requirements, are creating traffic demands that …

WDM-PON-based mobile edge computing (MEC)-enabled fiber wireless access networks
(MFWAN) have been identified as a promising technology for next-generation broadband …

The emerging video services are associated with stringent quality-of-service (QoS)
requirements and place high bandwidth demands on the core networks. Edge caching can …

Due to their initial overestimation of demand, many network operators are overprovisioning
their infrastructure. Overdesigned networks vastly increase operational costs without …

This study investigates how to model and solve the problem of optimally designing FTTx
telecommunications access networks integrating wired and wireless technologies, while …

In recent times, usage of fixed wireless access (FWA) is gaining momentum even though
fiber based existing services such as fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) are widely used for home …