Converged wired and wireless services in next generation optical access networks

@article{Browning2017ConvergedWA,
  title={Converged wired and wireless services in next generation optical access networks},
  author={Colm Browning and Arman Farhang and Arsalan Saljoghei and Nicola Marchetti and Vidak Vujicic and Linda Doyle and Liam P. Barry},
  journal={2017 19th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON)},
  year={2017},
  pages={1-3},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:22977695}
}
Techniques discussed in this paper shows how both wired and 5G wireless services may be converged over a single fiber infrastructure, and how optical networking can be harnessed in order to provide flexible millimeter-wave radio-over-fiber.

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