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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2018
Applicant:
Nec Laboratories America, Inc., Princeton, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Ivan B. Djordjevic, Tucson, AZ (US);
Shaoliang Zhang, Princeton, NJ (US);
Ting Wang, Windsor, NJ (US);
Assignee:
NEC CORPORATION, , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/00 (2013.01); H04B 10/2575 (2013.01); H04B 10/11 (2013.01); H04B 10/516 (2013.01); H04B 7/0413 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/2575 (2013.01); H04B 7/0413 (2013.01); H04B 10/11 (2013.01); H04B 10/516 (2013.01);
Abstract
Aspects of the present disclosure describe systems, methods, and structures that advantageously provide hybrid free-space optical (FSO)-radio frequency (RF) communication links (HFRCLs) that enable building integrated software-defined network (SDN) infrastructure capable of integrating ultra-high-throughput satellite networks, composite wireless infrastructures, heterogeneous networks (HetNets), hybrid networks, satellite networks, and fiber-optics networks—among others.