Joint wireless and Optical Resources Allocation based on connection availability in FiWi access network

Protection against component failure is one of the key issues in the development of Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) access network. Most of the previous protection approaches for FiWi put less attention on the connection availability and ignore the joint allocation of wireless and optical resources, which plays an important role in improving the global performance gain. In this paper, a new model is proposed for FiWi access network to estimate the connection availability. Under the requirements of bandwidth and connection availability, we focus on the optimal allocation of joint wireless and optical resources aiming to minimize resource consumption.