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The challenge for broadband fixed wireless access (BFWA) systems, which represent an attractive solution for broadband access in the last mile and for wireless backhauling applications in the "middle mile", lies in providing high data rates and Quality of Service (QoS). Such requirements mainly derive from the need to provide new bandwidth consuming multimedia services and applications, efficient handling of IP traffic, effective use of the limited radio spectrum and a greater backhaul capacity to support the increased number of users per cell site.IEEE 802.16 family of standards and its associated consortium WiMAX are gaining more and more interest in the telecommunication areas as broadband fixed wireless access solution with possible extension in nomadic and mobile area. Its main leverages are an efficient handling of IP traffic, the support of channel adaptivity and advanced QoS management.This paper aims at defining a new packet-based scheduling strategy for an IEEE 802.16 system supporting variable length MAC Protocol Data Units (PDUs) and adaptive coding and modulation while fulfilling QoS requirements. A performance analysis of the proposed scheduler is presented and discussed in terms of packet transfer delay, MAC overhead and average throughput.

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The optimization of the performance of installed standard-monomode fibers based optical transmission systems with in-line semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA's) is reported in this paper. Both solitons and nonreturn-to-zero (NRZ) signals are studied and their capacities are compared. This investigation is based on numerical simulations by solving the nonlinear Schrödinger equations with the split-step method while the SOA is simulated with two different models that we show to be in a good agreement. Transmissions over distances of the order of several hundreds of kilometers are shown to be possible, and very long distances can be reached expecially if in-line sliding filters are used.

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This article discusses a novel approach for realizing traffic engineering in the framework of new-generation multilayer networks based on the GMPLS paradigm. In particular, the proposed traffic engineering system is able to dynamically react to traffic changes while at the same time fulfilling QoS requirements for different classes of service. The proposed solution consists of a hybrid routing approach, based on both offline and online methods, and a novel bandwidth management system that handles priority, preemption mechanisms, and traffic rerouting in order to concurrently accommodate the largest amount of traffic and fulfill QoS requirements. The bandwidth resources of the network are effectively exploited by means of "elastic" utilization of the bandwidth. The main building blocks and operations of the system are reported, and the major advantages are discussed.

The dynamic behavior of single-channel transmission on standard fibers with strong dispersion management has been theoretically and numerically analyzed. A single pulse and a pseudorandom pulse sequence have been compared in order to highlight the relevant role played by pulse interaction. A semianalytical theory of the bandwidth evolution demonstrates that the introduction of prechirp is very important for controlling the single pulse propagation and numerical results show that such a chirp also permits to limit the nonlinear pulse interaction when other pulses are present. Simulations of a 40 Gb/s return-to-zero (RZ) system operating in links encompassing step-index fibers, by adopting a periodical compensation of the chromatic dispersion have been performed and results show that a record distance of 1300 km can be achieved with an amplifier spacing of 100 km. A compensation of the fiber third order dispersion would extend the transmission to 1800 km, which corresponds to the limits imposed by the amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) noise of the optical amplifiers.