An Integrated Fiber-Cell-WiFi Architecture for 4G/5G Fixed-Mobile Convergence

Abstract

Mobility and convergence are the basic requirements of the present day 4G-5G communications. We have good architectures for Fiber Optic MAN/WAN Networks, 4G WiMAX / LTE Cellular Networks and present day 4G/5G 802.11 WiFi networks; however we need to have unified architectures providing very high bandwidths and seamless services for 4G/5G communication needs. An effort has been made here to present such a unified architecture by integrating the best features of Fiber, WiMAX/LTE and WiFi architectures, which can support even 5G requirements.