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ABSTRACT
In this article, techno-economic analysis of a fiber-wireless access network is presented. With high bandwidth capacity of the gigabit passive optical network and with cost-effectiveness of very high throughput 802.11ac wireless local area networks that enable user mobility in the wireless segment, fiber-wireless access networks can be considered as an alternative to the fiber-to-the-home architecture for next generation access networks. Analysis based on the proposed scenario here, shows that a fiber-wireless access network is a more cost-effective solution in densely populated areas, but with some introduced improvements, even other geotypes can be considered as a commercially-viable solution.
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Damir Breskovic
Damir Breskovic was born in 1985 in Split, Croatia. He obtained his master’s degree in electrical engineering at the University of Split. In parallel with his postgraduate education he worked first in access network planning and engineering department at T-Hrvatski Telekom (T-Croatian Telecom, member of Deutsche Telekom group) and Ericsson Nikola Tesla Services before starting new job at Ericsson Nikola Tesla as a software developer. At the moment he is on course to receive his PhD degree from the University of Split. His current research interests cover next generation access networks, particularly fiber-wireless access network (FiWi) especially their techno-economic analysis and optimization techniques.
Dinko Begusic
Dinko Begusic received a BS degree in electrical engineering (concentration of telecommunications and informatics) from the University of Split, Croatia in 1983. He received an MS and a PhD degree in electrical engineering (telecommunications and informatics) from the University of Zagreb, Croatia, in 1988 and 1992, respectively. Since 1985, he has been with the University of Split, faculty of electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and naval architecture, Croatia. He was a visiting researcher at Universite Libre de Bruxelles and King’s College London, and visiting assistant professor with the University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX. Since 2002 he has been appointed chair of communications technologies and signal processing. From 2004 to 2008 he has been elected Dean of the Faculty. His research interests include communication systems and networks, wireless and optical networks, digital signal processing and adaptive algorithms, and communications software. He is a co-founder and co-editor in chief of the international Journal on Communications Software and Systems (JCOMSS). He is a co-founder and TPC co-chair of the international conference on software, telecommunications and computer networks (SoftCOM).