Toward 6G Optical Fronthaul: A Survey on Enabling Technologies and Research Perspectives

A Fayad, T Cinkler, J Rak - IEEE Communications Surveys & …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The anticipated launch of the Sixth Generation (6G) of mobile technology by 2030 will mark
a significant milestone in the evolution of wireless communication, ushering in a new era …

Reinforcement Learning-based Bandwidth Decision in Optical Access Networks: A Study of Exploration Strategy and Time with Confidence Guarantee

L Ruan, E Wong, H Zhu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reinforcement learning (RL) has recently emerged as a promising solution for intelligence
bandwidth decisions that reduce latency in optical access networks. Even though RL drives …

Resilient Fiber–Wireless Networks Featuring Scalability and Low Latency: Integrating a wheel-and-star architecture with wireless protection

Z Song, H Zhang - IEEE Access, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Future metro-access optical networks will be large-capacity, low-latency, high-reliability,
large-scale, cost-efficient platforms that support fiber–wireless convergence. However …

DRL-enabled cooperative free-space optical communication system with an elastic optical splitter

Y Liu, X Wang, S Liao, Q Sun, S Feng… - Journal of Optical …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Cooperative communication has been widely studied as an effective technique for free-
space optical (FSO) systems to combat the effects of atmospheric conditions and beam …

An optimization investigation of enhanced practicality for the OFH/PC scheme based PON monitoring system

J Deng, X Zhang - Optical Fiber Technology, 2024 - Elsevier
We propose a discrete and average approach, focusing on the code set rather than
individual codes, for the PON monitoring system based on the optical frequency …

Self-Adaptive Bandwidth Allocation to Address Dynamic Traffic Concept Drift in Optical Access Networks

L Ruan, E Wong - 2023 21st International Conference on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this invited talk, we will review our recent work on online reinforcement learning-based
dynamic bandwidth allocation (ORL-DBA) scheme that addresses concept drift in ML …