Toward an efficient C-RAN optical fronthaul for the future networks: A tutorial on technologies, requirements, challenges, and solutions

IA Alimi, AL Teixeira, PP Monteiro - … Communications Surveys & …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The exponential traffic growth, demand for high speed wireless data communications, as
well as incessant deployment of innovative wireless technologies, services, and …

Towards enhanced mobile broadband communications: A tutorial on enabling technologies, design considerations, and prospects of 5G and beyond fixed wireless …

IA Alimi, RK Patel, NJ Muga, AN Pinto, AL Teixeira… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
There has been a growing interconnection across the world owing to various multimedia
applications and services. Fixed wireless access (FWA) is an attractive wireless solution for …

Challenges and opportunities of optical wireless communication technologies

I Alimi, A Shahpari, A Sousa, R Ferreira… - Optical …, 2017 - books.google.com
In this chapter, we present various opportunities of using optical wireless communication
(OWC) technologies in each sector of optical communication networks. Moreover …

Analysis of multiuser mixed RF/FSO relay networks for performance improvements in cloud computing-based radio access networks (CC-RANs)

IA Alimi, PP Monteiro, AL Teixeira - Optics Communications, 2017 - Elsevier
The key paths toward the fifth generation (5G) network requirements are towards centralized
processing and small-cell densification systems that are implemented on the cloud …

Performance analysis of space-air-ground integrated network (SAGIN) over an arbitrarily correlated multivariate FSO channel

IA Alimi, AO Mufutau, AL Teixeira… - Wireless Personal …, 2018 - Springer
The space-air-ground integrated network (SAGIN) system interconnect several networks in
order to achieve a large network topology that is capable of efficient sharing of global …

Enabling optical wired and wireless technologies for 5G and beyond networks

IA Alimi, A Tavares, C Pinho, AM Abdalla… - … and applications of …, 2019 - books.google.com
The emerging fifth-generation mobile communications are envisaged to support massive
number of deployment scenarios based on the respective use case requirements. The …

Effects of correlated multivariate FSO channel on outage performance of space-air-ground integrated network (SAGIN)

IA Alimi, AL Teixeira, PP Monteiro - Wireless Personal Communications, 2019 - Springer
In order to share the global information and resources efficiently over a huge network
topology, the Space-Air-Ground Integrated Network (SAGIN) system integrates a number of …

Simple and robust transmit diversity based free-space optical communications for 5G and beyond networks

IA Alimi, NJ Muga - Optics Communications, 2020 - Elsevier
The free-space optical (FSO) system has been considered as a promising scheme for
various communication use cases and deployment scenarios due to the associated …

Enabling VLC and WiFi network technologies and architectures toward 5G

IA Alimi, AM Abdalla, J Rodriguez… - Optical and Wireless …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter focuses on visible light communication (VLC) technologies within the context of
5G. Basically, a VLC system employs LED lamps as access points and a photodetector or an …

Real-time dual-polarization transmission based on hybrid optical wireless communications

AN Sousa, IA Alimi, RM Ferreira, A Shahpari… - Optical Fiber …, 2018 - Elsevier
We present experimental work on a gigabit-capable and long-reach hybrid coherent UWDM-
PON plus FSO system for supporting different applications over the same fiber infrastructure …