@inproceedings{3137628,
    title = "Hybrid wireless optics (HWO): Building the next-generation home network",
    author = "Bouchet, Olivier and El Tabach, Mamdouh and Wolf, Mike and O'Brien, and Dominic C. and Faulkner, Grahame E. and Walewski, Joachim W. and Randel, and Sebastian and Franke, Martin and Nerreter, Stefan and Langer, and Klaus-Dieter and Grubor, Jelena and Kamalakis, Thomas",
    year = "2008",
    pages = "283+",
    publisher = "IEEE Comput. Soc",
    booktitle = "CSNDSP 08: PROCEEDINGS OF THE SIXTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON
COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, NETWORKS AND DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING",
    doi = "10.1109/CSNDSP.2008.4610822",
    keywords = "free space optic; FSO; wireless optic link; optical wireless; wireless
optic network; WON; HWO; hybrid wireless optics",
    abstract = "Gigabit home access networks (HANs) are a pivotal technology to be
developed if the European Union (EU) Vision of the Future Internet is to
be realised. Consumers will require such HANs to be simple to install,
without any new wires, and easy enough to use so that information
services running on the HAN will be “just another utility,” as, for
instance, electricity, water and gas are today. The hOME Gigabit Access
(OMEGA) HAN project [1] aims at bridging the gap between home and
access network, providing Gbit/s connectivity to users. The project
considers a combination of various technologies such as radio frequency
(RF) and free-space or wireless optical links (FSO-operating at infrared
and visible wavelengths) in order to meet user demands and provide
wireless connectivity within and the home and its surroundings. When
combined with power-line communications this enables a home backbone
that meets the “without new wires” vision. A technology-independent
MAC layer will control this network and provide services as well as
connectivity to any number of devices the user wishes to connect to it
in any room in a house/apartment, and further, this MAC layer will allow
the service to follow the user from device to device. In order to make
this vision come true, substantial progress is required in the fields of
optical-wireless physical layers, in protocol design, and in system
architecture."
}