IEICE Trans - Wireless and Wireline Service Convergence in Next Generation Optical Access Networks — The FP7 WISCON Project

Wireless and Wireline Service Convergence in Next Generation Optical Access Networks — The FP7 WISCON Project

J. J. VEGAS OLMOS
X. PANG
A. LEBEDEV
M. SALES
I. TAFUR MONROY

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E97-B No.8 pp.1537-1546
Publication Date: 2014/08/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1587/transcom.E97.B.1537
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on EU's FP7 ICT R&D Project Activities on Future Broadband Access Technologies in Conjunction with Main Topics of 2013 IEICE ICT Forum)
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Keyword:
FP7, Marie Curie, wireless, convergence, radio-over-fiber, millimeter-wave signals,

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Summary:
The next generation of information technology demands both high capacity and mobility for applications such as high speed wireless access capable of supporting broadband services. The transport of wireless and wireline signals is converging into a common telecommunication infrastructure. In this paper, we will present the Marie Curie Framework Program 7 project “Wireless and wireline service convergence in next generation optical access networks” (WISCON), which focuses on the conception and study of novel architectures for wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) optical multi-modulation format radio-over-fiber (RoF) systems; this is a promising solution to implement broadband seamless wireless -wireline access networks. This project successfully concluded in autumn 2013, and is being follow up by another Marie Curie project entitled “flexible edge nodes for dynamic optical interconnection of access and core networks” (FENDOI), which will be also briefly described.