Fiber-Wireless Convergence in Next-Generation Communication Networks

Dr. Massimo Tornatore is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics and Information in Politecnico di Milano, Italy and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Davis. Since late 2000, member of the Broadband Optical Networks, Security & Advanced Internet Lab (Bonsai Group) in Politecnico di Milano. In 2002, I was a research associate in Corecom, and I worked in collaboration with PSTS (Pirelly Submarine Telecom Systems) and TILAB (Telecom Italia Labs). I received a Ph.D. in Information Engineering in May 2006. From 2007 to 2009, I was a post-doc researcher in the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Davis. In January 2010, I started my career as a faculty in Politecnico di Milano. I co-authored about 190 conference and journal papers and my research interests include design, energy efficiency, and survivability in optical networks and group communication security. You can find more information in my research page or by reading one of my papers. Dr. Gee-Kung Chang is a Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Georgios Ellinas is an Associate Professor at the University of Cyprus

Introduction.- Future Radio Access, WiFi-LTE, LTE advanced.- Evolution and Trends of Broadband Access Technologies and Fiber-Wireless Systems.- The Benefits of Convergence through Fiber Wireless Integration and Networking.- Analog and Digitized Radio-over-Fiber.- Overview of standardization for D-RoF.- Wireless delivery of over 100Gb/s mm-wave signal in the W-band.- Systems Challenges for SDN in Fiber Wireless Networks.- Architectural Evolution and Novel Design of Fiber-Wireless Access Networks.- Advanced architectures for PON supporting Fi-Wi convergence.- BBU Hotelling in Centralized Radio Access Networks.- Rethink Ring and Young.- Next Generation PoP with functional convergence re-distributions.- Coordinated Multi-Point (CoMP) Systems.- Converged Wireless Access/Optical Metro Networks in Support of Cloud and Mobile Cloud Services deploying SDN Principles.- Conclusion and Future Topics.