On the Issues and Challenges of Fiber-Wireless (Fi-Wi) Networks

Table 1

Major terminologies at a glance.

Abbreviations	Full meaning
Fi-Wi	Fiber-wireless
Wi-Fi	Wireless fidelity
P2P	Peer-to-peer
PON	Passive optical networks
EPON	Ethernet passive optical network
GPON	Gigabit passive optical network
OLT	Optical line terminal
ONU	Optical network units
LP	Linear programming
RN	Remote node
WMN	Wireless mesh network
RoF	Radio-over-fiber
R&F	Radio and fiber
RAU	Remote antenna unit