Fog Computing Enhanced Fiber‐Wireless Access Networks in the 5G Era

Given the growing progress on, and interest in, 5G networks, fiber‐wireless (FiWi) access networks have great potential to enable the emergence of a variety of novel applications and creating new exciting opportunities. In this chapter, the authors focus on the 5G key attributes of high reliability with substantially enhanced connectivity and very low latency and study how and to what extent they can be obtained in fog computing‐FiWi (FC‐FiWi) networks. They aim to design an architecture and develop a novel unified resource management scheme as well as to study their achievable performance gains. The authors present the detailed analysis of survivability and end‐to‐end packet delay performance in greater detail. They discuss the implementation and validation, including the concept validation approach, experimental testbed, and obtained results. The authors develop a two‐layer TDMA based unified resource management scheme to schedule FiWi, fog, and cloud traffic at the same time.