[S3] Advanced Optical Technologies for Bigdata/IoT Service

[S3-4] Optical Transport Networks for 5G: An Enabler for Vertical Industries

〇Anna Tzanakaki^1,2, Markos Anastasopoulos², Arash Farhadi Beldachi², Dimitra Simeonidou² (¹National and Kapodistrian Univ. of Athens, Greece, ²Univ. of Bristol, UK)

Keywords:Optical access networks for post 5G mobile service , Hybrid wireless-optical access networks

This paper presents the role of optical transport networks in 5G, as an enabler of Enhanced Mobile Broadband, Ultra-Low Latency Reliable and Massive Machine to Machine services in vertical industries. Energy efficiency gains are quantified.