Table of Contents
Part I: ACCESS AND BACKHAUL NETWORKS
1 ROADMAP FOR NEXT-GENERATION COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS
1.1 REQUIREMENTS FOR NGN AND THE ROLE OF QoS FOR THE FUTURE INTERNET
1.2 PROBLEMS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR NGN EVOLUTION
2 WIDE-AREA UBIQUITOUS NETWORK: INFRASTRUCTURE FOR SENSOR AND ACTUATOR NETWORKING
2.2 TARGET APPLICATIONS AND MARKET
2.3 REQUIREMENTS, CONCEPT, AND TOTAL SYSTEM
2.7 APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API) AND MIDDLEWARE
3.2 COPPER-BASED ACCESS NETWORKS
3.4 HYBRID FIBER COAXIAL NETWORKS
4 FIBER–WIRELESS (FIWI) NETWORKS: TECHNOLOGIES, ARCHITECTURES, AND FUTURE CHALLENGES
4.2 ROF VERSUS R&F FIWI NETWORKS
4.3 ENABLING FIWI TECHNOLOGIES
4.5 TECHNO-ECONOMIC EVALUATION
4.6 FUTURE CHALLENGES AND IMPERATIVES
6.2 MICROWAVE RADIO FUNDAMENTAL TECHNIQUES
6.3. DIFFERENT TYPES OF RADIO TECHNOLOGIES
6.5 MOBILE BACKHAUL EVOLUTION ALTERNATIVES
Part II: WIRELINE TECHNOLOGIES
7 PAVING THE ROAD TO Gbit/s BROADBAND ACCESS WITH COPPER
7.2 HYBRID FIBER/COPPER-BASED BROADBAND ACCESS NETWORK
7.3 PHYSICAL-LAYER TECHNIQUES FOR THE LAST DROP
7.4 REGULATORY AND LEGAL ASPECTS
8 DYNAMIC BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION IN EPON AND GPON
9 NEXT-GENERATION ETHERNET PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORKS: 10G-EPON
9.3 COEXISTENCE OF 1G-EPON AND 10G-EPON
9.4 TARGET APPLICATIONS FOR 10G-EPON SYSTEMS
10 BROADBAND POWER-LINE COMMUNICATIONS
10.3 ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY REGULATIONS
10.6 MEAN SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO
11 POWER-LINE COMMUNICATIONS AND SMART GRID
11.2 POWER LINE COMMUNICATIONS (PLC)
11.3 CHANNEL CHARACTERISTICS OF POWER LINES
Part III: WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES AND SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT
12 SIGNALING FOR MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCING IN 4G: ARCHITECTURE, EVALUATION, AND ISSUES
12.1 BACKGROUND: 4G, MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS, AND CONFERENCING
12.2 SIGNALING FOR CONFERENCING IN 4G
12.3 OPTIMIZATION OF SIGNALING SYSTEMS: USING CROSS-LAYER DESIGN
13 SELF-COEXISTENCE AND SECURITY IN COGNITIVE RADIO NETWORKS
13.2 COGNITIVE RADIO NETWORK SYSTEM OVERVIEW
13.3 CHALLENGES AND RELATED WORK
13.4 SELF-COEXISTENCE AMONG MULTIPLE CR NETWORKS
13.5 RISK OF PRIMARY USER EMULATION ATTACK
13.6 SIMULATION MODEL AND RESULTS
15 ULTRA-WIDEBAND PERSONAL AREA NETWORKS: MIMO EXTENSIONS
15.2 ULTRA-WIDEBAND COMMUNICATIONS
15.3 MULTIPLE ANTENNAS AND PRECODING FOR UWB SYSTEMS
15.4 TRANSMIT ANTENNA SELECTION
15.5 TRANSMIT BEAMFORMING IN UWB SYSTEMS
Part IV: METROPOLITAN, CORE, AND STORAGE AREA NETWORKS
16.1 RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN METROPOLITAN AND ACCESS NETWORKS
16.2 METROPOLITAN AREA AND BROADBAND ACCESS NETWORK INTEGRATION
16.3 CONVERGENCE OF OPTICAL AND WIRELESS ACCESS NETWORK
16.4 FUTURE OUTLOOK FOR METRO-ACCESS NETWORKS
17 RESILIENT BURST RING: A NOVEL TECHNOLOGY FOR NEXT-GENERATION METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS
17.2 OVERVIEW OF THE RESILIENT BURST RING
17.3 NODE STRUCTURE OF THE RBR NETWORK
17.4 CONTROL SCHEME OF THE RBR NETWORK
17.5 QOS STRATEGY OF THE RBR NETWORK
17.6 PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF THE RBR NETWORK
18 MULTIPROTOCOL LABEL SWITCHING
18.2 BASIC UNDERLYING IDEA AND OPERATING PRINCIPLES
19 OVERVIEW OF STORAGE NETWORKING AND STORAGE NETWORKS
19.2 INTRODUCTION TO STORAGE NETWORKS
19.3 STORAGE NETWORKING CONCEPTS
19.4 APPLICATIONS OF STORAGE NETWORKS
19.5 STORAGE NETWORK PROTOCOLS
Part V: PHOTONIC AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENT TECHNOLOGY
20 ROADM ARCHITECTURES AND WSS IMPLEMENTATION TECHNOLOGIES
20.2 NEXT-GENERATION ROADM ARCHITECTURES
20.3 WAVELENGTH-SELECTIVE SWITCHING IMPLEMENTATION TECHNOLOGIES
20.5 CONCLUSIONS—FUTURE TRENDS
21 INTEGRATED CIRCUITS FOR DISPERSION COMPENSATION IN OPTICAL COMMUNICATION LINKS
21.2 DISPERSION IN OPTICAL FIBERS
21.3 ELECTRONIC DISPERSION COMPENSATION (EDC) USING LINEAR EQUALIZATION
21.7 ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO DISPERSION COMPENSATION
22 HIGH-END SILICON PHOTODIODE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS
22.1 OPTICAL ABSORPTION OF IMPORTANT SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS
22.3 INTEGRATED PHOTODIODE RECEIVERS
23 MIMO WIRELESS TRANSCEIVER DESIGN INCORPORATING HYBRID ARQ
23.2 HARQ AND ITS APPLICATION TO MIMO WIRELESS SYSTEMS
23.3 TRANSMITTER IMPLEMENTATION
23.5 SIMULATED PERFORMANCE OF HARQ IN MIMO WIRELESS SYSTEMS
24 RADIO-FREQUENCY TRANSCEIVERS