A key 6G challenge and opportunity—Connecting the base of the pyramid: A survey on rural connectivity

E Yaacoub, MS Alouini - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Providing connectivity to around half of the world population living in rural or underprivileged
areas is a tremendous challenge, but, at the same time, a unique opportunity. Access to the …

A key 6G challenge and opportunity--connecting the remaining 4 billions: a survey on rural connectivity

E Yaacoub, MS Alouini - arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.11541, 2019 - arxiv.org
Providing connectivity to around half of the World population living in rural or
underprivileged areas is a tremendous challenge, but also a unique opportunity. In this …

Resilient architecture for optical access networks

C Christodoulou, G Ellinas - Photonic Network Communications, 2021 - Springer
This work proposes a resilient wheel-based wavelength-division-multiplexed passive optical
network optical access network architecture for backhauling network traffic. This proposed …

Flexible filtering element on SOI with wide bandwidth tunability and full FSR tuning

G Poulopoulos, G Giannoulis, N Iliadis… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a silicon-on-insulator flexible filtering element, relying on two serially
coupled micro-ring resonators equipped with three thermo-optically tuned Mach–Zehnder …

Co-existence of OFDM and FBMC for resilient photonic millimeter-wave 5G mobile fronthaul

AT Latunde, A Papazafeiropoulos, P Kourtessis… - Photonic Network …, 2019 - Springer
This paper presents a novel co-existence of multiple Fifth-Generation (5G) services
employing Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) and Filter Bank Multicarrier …

A programmable optical network testbed in support of C-RAN: a reliability study

S Ramanathan, M Tacca, M Razo… - Photonic Network …, 2019 - Springer
With both mobile network services and related data traffic volume on the rise, reliability of the
radio access network is of the essence. A number of radio functional splits are defined by …

SDN-oriented disaggregated optical access node for converged 5G mobile and residential services

M Wang, G Simon, LA Neto, A Bella… - 2021 European …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We experimentally transport the 5G backhaul interface over an OVS-DPDK based OLT in a
generic server. Our SDN solution provides the flexible residential and 5G-mobile converged …

SD-enabled mobile fronthaul dynamic bandwidth and wavelength allocation (DBWA) mechanism in converged TWDM-EPON architecture

AT Liem, IS Hwang, AA Nikoukar… - 2018 6th International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the application of the second stage of next generation passive optical network (NG-
PON2) based on time and wavelength division multiplexed PON (TWDM-PON) is expected …

Fully Flexible Filtering Element on SOI with 7-80 GHz bandwidth tunability and full FSR tuning

G Poulopoulos, G Giannoulis, N Iliadis… - Optical Fiber …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Fully Flexible Filtering Element on SOI with 7-80 GHz bandwidth tunability and full FSR tuning
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Efficient polling cycle adaptive passive optical network for low-latency 5G fronthaul

S Zhang, R Gu, Y Ji, L Bai, Z Ma, A Chen - Optical Switching and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Under the large and ubiquitous bandwidth requirements of the upcoming 5G era, new
common public radio interface (CPRI) solutions (such as eCPRI) characterized by scale …