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154049 https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.35990 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ All Rights Reserved 2015 viii, 81 pages : illustrations (some color) Doctoral Dissertation Academic theses Text eng Chen, Po-Yen Reisslein, Martin Seeling, Patrick Ying, Lei Zhang, Yanchao Arizona State University Partial requirement for: Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2015 Includes bibliographical references (pages 72-78) Field of study: Electrical engineering A Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) network integrates a passive optical network (PON) with wireless mesh networks (WMNs) to provide high speed backhaul via the PON while offering the flexibility and mobility of a WMN. Generally, increasing the size of a WMN leads to higher wireless interference and longer packet delays. The partitioning of a large WMN into several smaller WMN clusters, whereby each cluster is served by an Optical Network Unit (ONU) of the PON, is examined. Existing WMN throughput-delay analysis techniques considering the mean load of the nodes at a given hop distance from a gateway (ONU) are unsuitable for the heterogeneous nodal traffic loads arising from clustering. A simple analytical queuing model that considers the individual node loads to accurately characterize the throughput-delay performance of a clustered FiWi network is introduced. The accuracy of the model is verified through extensive simulations. It is found that with sufficient PON bandwidth, clustering substantially improves the FiWi network throughput-delay performance by employing the model to examine the impact of the number of clusters on the network throughput-delay performance. Different traffic models and network designs are also studied to improve the FiWi network performance. Electrical Engineering fiber wireless network wireless mesh network FiWi access networks Passive optical networks Wireless communication systems Design and performance analysis of fiber wireless networks