Optical Communications in the 5G Era

"Optical Communications in the 5G Era provides an up-to-date overview of the emerging optical communication technologies for 5G wireless networks. It outlines the emerging applications of optical networks in supporting future wireless networks, state-of-the-art optical communication technologies, and explores new R&D opportunities in the field of converged fixed-mobile networks. This book is an ideal reference for university researchers, graduate students, and industry R&D engineers in optical communications, photonics, and wireless communications who need a broad and deep understanding of modern optical communication technologies, systems, and networks that are fundamental to 5G and beyond." • Describes 5G wireless trends and technologies such as cloud radio access networks (C-RAN), massive multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO), and coordinated multipoint (CoMP) • Gives an insight into recent advances on the common public radio interface (CPRI), the evolved CPRI (eCPRI), and the open radio access networks (O-RAN) interface • Presents X-haul technologies and how transportation technologies can satisfy the mobile network requirements • Describes recent technological advances in access, aggregation, metro, data center, backbone, and undersea optical networks • Discusses the vision and use cases of the 5th generation fixed network (F5G) to help realize a fully connected, intelligent world for the benefit of our global society