A contemporary survey on free space optical communication: Potentials, technical challenges, recent advances and research direction

A Jahid, MH Alsharif, TJ Hall - Journal of network and computer …, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to the unprecedented growth of high speed multimedia services and diversified
applications initiated from the massive connectivity of IoT devices, 5G and beyond 5G (B5G) …

Hybrid LiFi and WiFi networks: A survey

X Wu, MD Soltani, L Zhou, M Safari… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In order to tackle the rapidly growing number of mobile devices and their expanding
demands for Internet services, network convergence is envisaged to integrate different …

A comparative survey of optical wireless technologies: Architectures and applications

MZ Chowdhury, MT Hossan, A Islam, YM Jang - ieee Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
New high-data-rate multimedia services and applications are evolving continuously and
exponentially increasing the demand for wireless capacity of fifth-generation (5G) and …

Software defined optical networks (SDONs): A comprehensive survey

AS Thyagaturu, A Mercian, MP McGarry… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The emerging software defined networking (SDN) paradigm separates the data plane from
the control plane and centralizes network control in an SDN controller. Applications interact …

Full-duplex communication in cognitive radio networks: A survey

M Amjad, F Akhtar, MH Rehmani… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless networks with their ubiquitous applications have become an indispensable part of
our daily lives. Wireless networks demand more and more spectral resources to support the …

New perspectives on future smart FiWi networks: Scalability, reliability, and energy efficiency

J Liu, H Guo, H Nishiyama, H Ujikawa… - … surveys & tutorials, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) network, as an integration of optical fiber network and wireless access
network, has attracted intensive research interest and enjoyed significant growth in its …

A survey of optical wireless technologies: Practical considerations, impairments, security issues and future research directions

SAH Mohsan, A Mazinani, HB Sadiq… - Optical and Quantum …, 2022 - Springer
In the past few decades, the academic research and industrial synergy is dramatically
accelerating to conceptualize high data rate services. The congestion in the radio frequency …

Cloudlet enhanced fiber-wireless access networks for mobile-edge computing

BP Rimal, DP Van, M Maier - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes to enhance capacity-centric fiber-wireless (FiWi) broadband access
networks based on data-centric Ethernet technologies with computation-and storage-centric …

LiFi and hybrid WiFi/LiFi indoor networking: From theory to practice

MR Ghaderi - Optical Switching and Networking, 2023 - Elsevier
Light fidelity (LiFi) is a wireless optical communication (WOC) technology that holds the key
to solving the challenges of 5th and higher generation mobile networks. LiFi is a two-way …

Hybrid 5G optical‐wireless SDN‐based networks, challenges and open issues

P Sarigiannidis, T Lagkas, S Bibi, A Ampatzoglou… - Iet …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The fifth‐generation (5G) mobile networks are expected to bring higher capacity, higher
density of mobile devices, lower battery consumption and improved coverage. 5G entails the …