A review on the network architectures and quality of service algorithms for integrated optical and wireless broadband access networks

Nowadays, broadband access network has obtained increasing attention among Internet users. High bandwidth demands and the need on mobility of the network are factors for the network design and architectures to be part of the hot topics in the research area. Wireline optical and wireless networks are two different architectures of broadband access network which offer advantages over each other. Quality of services (QoS) in telecommunication network has significant role in the flow of data in the network, particularly in data scheduling. This paper defines integrated optical wireless broadband access network, describes QoS focusing on integrated network and reviews some previous work on scheduling algorithms.