The exponential traffic growth, demand for high speed wireless data communications, as
well as incessant deployment of innovative wireless technologies, services, and …

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 …

This paper reports on the architectural, protocol, physical layer, and integrated testbed
demonstrations carried out by the DISCUS FP7 consortium in the area of access–metro …

Time and wavelength division multiplexed passive optical network (TWDM-PON) standards
dramatically increase the performance of PON systems and address ever-increasing …

High deployment cost with respect to expected revenue is the main barrier to fiber-to-the-
home (FTTH) roll-out in rural areas. This problem, as shown in this paper, is exacerbated by …

Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) have emerged as a scalable, reliable, and agile wireless
network that supports many types of innovative technologies such as the Internet of Things …

In this paper, we propose hybrid discrete Fourier transform (DFT)-spread orthogonal
frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-digital filter multiple access (DFMA) passive optical …

By utilizing digital orthogonal filtering (DOF) in the digital domain, we report, for the first time,
experimental demonstrations of aggregated 30.078 Gb/s/λ transmissions of DOF …

The challenging performance targets of future 5G networks will require a radical change in
the network design with a much closer interaction between wireless and optical systems …

Rapidly growing and fluctuating traffic demands lead to unbalanced traffic scenarios in
optical access networks, which have an impact on network efficiency. Thus, the flexible …