FiWi access networks: Future research challenges and moonshot perspectives

Global cellular networks are currently undergoing a major paradigm shift to cope with the unprecedented growth of mobile data traffic driven by the popularity of smart phones and mobile-connected tablets running diverse data-centric applications. In fiber-wireless (FiWi) enhanced LTE-Advanced heterogeneous networks (HetNets), the traditional barriers between coverage-centric mobile networks and capacity-centric FiWi broadband access networks may...