Access Nets

Invited Papers.- HOWRAN: An Hybrid Optical Wireless Radio Access Network for WiMAX Antennas Backhauling.- The Audacity of Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) Networks.- When Are Online and Offline Excess Bandwidth Distribution Useful in EPONs?.- Cost-Performance Planning of Municipal Wireless Access Networks.- Greener Copper with Dynamic Spectrum Management.- Full Papers.- Performance Comparison of Orthogonal and Quasi-orthogonal Codes in Quasi-Synchronous Cellular CDMA Communication.- Supporting Session and Access Point Mobility in a Large Multi-provider Multi-vendor Municipal WiFi Network.- A Fast MAC-Layer Handover for an IEEE 802.16e-Based WMAN.- A Conflict-Free Low-Jitter Guaranteed-Rate MAC Protocol for Base-Station Communications in Wireless Mesh Networks.- Coexistence of Collocated IEEE 802.11 and Bluetooth Technologies in 2.4 GHz ISM Band.- Enabling Broadband as Commodity within Access Networks: A QoS Recipe.- A Simulator of Periodically Switching Channels for Power Line Communications.- Placement of Base Stations in Broadband Power Line Communications Access Networks by Means of Multi-criteria Optimization.- Modeling of Channel Allocation in Broadband Powerline Communications Access Networks as a Multi-Criteria Optimization Problem.- Topology Design of Hierarchical Hybrid Fiber-VDSL Access Networks with Enhanced Discrete Binary PSO.- Near-Optimal Multi-user Greedy Bit-Loading for Digital Subscriber Lines.- Case for Dynamic Reconfigurability in Access Networks.- Fragmentation in a Novel Implementation of Slotted GPON Segmentation and Reassembly.- TCP Performance over Gigabit-Capable Passive Optical Networks.- A Fast Channel Switching Method in EPON System for IPTV Service.- WDM Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation Schemes for Ethernet PONs.- VoIP Performance with Aggressive AMC andSINR Feedback for WiMAX Downlink.- Performance of Adaptive Sub-carrier and Bit Allocation Algorithms for Multi-user OFDM Wireless Systems.- Proportional Increase Multiplicative Decrease (PIMD) Wireless