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About the Editors ii Contributors v Preface xxvii Acknowledgments i Introduction iii 1 Towards a Converged Optical-Wireless Fronthaul/Backhaul Solution for 5G Networks and Beyond 1 Isiaka Ajewale Alimi, Nelson Jesus Muga, Abdelgader M. Abdalla, Catia Pinho, Jonathan Rodriguez, Paulo Pereira Monteiro, Antonio Lucios Teixeira 1.1 Introduction 2 1.2 Cellular Network Interface and Solution 3 1.2.1 MBH/MFH Architecture 3 1.2.2 Integrated MBH/MFH Transport Network 5 1.3 5G Enabling Technologies 5 1.3.1 Ultra-Densication 6 1.3.2 C-RAN and RAN Virtualization 6 1.3.3 Advanced radio coordination 8 1.3.4 Millimeter-Wave Small Cells 9 1.3.5 Massive MIMO 10 1.3.6 New Multicarrier Modulations for 5G 10 1.4 Fiber-Wireless Network Convergence 11 1.5 Radio-over-Fiber Transmission Scheme 12 1.5.1 Digital Radio-over-Fiber (D-RoF) Transmission 12 1.5.2 Analog Radio-over-Fiber (A-RoF) Transmission 13 1.6 Optical MBH/MFH Transport Network Multiplexing Schemes 14 1.6.1 Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (WDM) based Schemes 14 1.6.2 Spatial-Division Multiplexing (SDM) based Schemes 15 1.7 Wireless based MFH/MBH 18 1.7.1 FSO Communication Systems 18 1.7.2 Hybrid RF/FSO Technology 21 1.7.3 Relay-Assisted FSO Transmission 22 1.8 Experimental Channel measurement and characterization 23 1.9 Results and Discussions 24 1.10 Conclusion 24 Acknowledgments 24 Bibliography 25 2 Hybrid Fiber Wireless (HFW) Extension for GPON Toward 5G 31 Rattana Chuenchom, Andreas Ste-an, Robert G. Walker, Stephen J. Clements, Yigal Leiba, Andrzej Banach, Mateusz Lech, Andreas Stohr 2.1 Passive Optical Network 32 2.1.1 GPON and EPON standard 33 2.2 Transparent Wireless Extension of Optical Links 34 2.2.1 Transparent wireless exte