Fractals and disordered systems
Fractals and disordered systems
Assignment of cells to switches in PCS networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
On power-law relationships of the Internet topology
Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Supporting mobile commerce applications using dependable wireless networks
Mobile Networks and Applications
Designing Least-Cost Survivable Wireless Backhaul Networks
Journal of Heuristics
Measuring the Reliability and Survivability of Infrastructure-Oriented Wireless Networks
LCN '01 Proceedings of the 26th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks
Enabling large-scale wireless broadband: the case for TAPs
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
BROADNETS '04 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Broadband Networks
FraNtiC: A Fractal Geometric Framework for Mesh-Based Wireless Access Networks
ICDCS '05 Proceedings of the 25th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
GaMa: An Evolutionary Algorithmic Approach for the Design of Mesh-Based Radio Access Networks
LCN '05 Proceedings of the The IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks 30th Anniversary
A tabu search approach for assigning cells to switches in cellular mobile networks
Computer Communications
Survivable mobile phone network architectures: models and solution methods
IEEE Communications Magazine
The future generations of mobile communications based on broadband access technologies
IEEE Communications Magazine
Providing fault tolerance in wireless access networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
Planning reliable UMTS terrestrial access networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
An architecture for next-generation radio access networks
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
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The phenomenal growth in wireless technologies has brought about a slew of new services. Incumbent with the new technology is the challenge of providing flexible, reconfigurable, self-organizing architectures which are capable of catering to the dynamics of the network, while providing cost-effective solutions for the service providers. In this paper, we focus on mesh-based multi-hop access network architectures for next generation radio access networks. Using short, high bandwidth optical wireless links to interconnect the various network elements, we propose a non-hierarchical, multi-hop access network framework. We study two generic family of mesh-based topologies: GPeterNet, a graph theoretic framework, and FraNtiC, a fractal geometric architecture, for arbitrary access network deployments. The performance of these topologies is analyzed in terms of different system metrics - topological robustness and reliability, system costs and network exposure due to failure conditions. Our analysis shows that a combination of different mesh-based multi-hop access topologies, coupled with emerging wireless backhaul technologies, can cater carrier-class services for next generation radio access networks, providing significant advantages over existing access technologies.