Content:
Chapter 1 Background and Introduction (pages 1–16): Paulo P. Monteiro, Atilio Gameiro and Nathan J. Gomes
Chapter 2 Trends in Wireless Communications (pages 17–46): Aarne Mammela, Mika Lasanen and Jarno Pinola
Chapter 3 System Concepts for the Central Processing of Signals (pages 47–60): Atilio Gameiro and Daniel Castanheira
Chapter 4 Introduction to Radio over Fiber (pages 61–89): Nathan J. Gomes and David Wake
Chapter 5 Radio over Fiber System Design for Distributed Broadband Wireless Systems (pages 91–112): David Wake and Nathan J. Gomes
Chapter 6 Optical Network Architectures for the Support of Future Wireless Systems (pages 113–132): Silvia Pato and Joao Pedro
Chapter 7 Optical Transmitters for Low?Cost Broadband Transport (pages 133–158): Guilhem de Valicourt, Romain Brenot, Frederic Van Dijk and Guanghua Duan
Chapter 8 Algorithms for Coordinated Multipoint Techniques (pages 159–189): Fabian Diehm, Mohamed Kamoun and Gerhard Fettweis
Chapter 9 Cross?Layer Resource Allocation and Scheduling (pages 191–210): Ilkka Harjula, Mikko Hiivala, Vinay Uday Prabhu, Dimitris Toumpakaris and Huiling Zhu
Chapter 10 Compensation of Impairments in the Radio over Fiber Infrastructure (pages 211–245): Atso Hekkala, Mika Lasanen, Mikko Hiivala, Luis Vieira, Nathan J. Gomes, Vincent Kotzsch and Gerhard Fettweis
Chapter 11 Radio over Fiber Network Management (pages 247–263): Carlos Santiago, Bodhisattwa Gangopadhyay and Artur Arsenio
Chapter 12 System?Level Evaluation (pages 265–290): Ramiro Samano?Robles and Atilio Gameiro
Chapter 13 Business Evaluation and Perspectives (pages 291–312): George Agapiou, Vitor Simoes Ribeiro, Angela Maria Ferro Venturi, Silmar Freire Palmeira and A. Manuel de Oliveira Duarte
Chapter 14 Summary and Conclusions (pages 313–316): Paulo P. Monteiro, Atilio Gameiro and Nathan J. Gomes
