Access Nets

The annual International Conference on Access Networks (AccessNets) aims to provide a forum that brings together researchers and scientists from academia as well as man- ers and engineers from industry to meet and exchange ideas and recent work on all aspects of access networks. This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third International Conference on Access Networks, AccessNets 2008, held in Las Vegas, NV, USA, in October 2008. The 30 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected. The papers present original and fundamental research advances in the area of access networks, such as hybrid access networks, passive optical networks, fiber assisted wireless for broadband access networks, carrier ethernet and the evolving access networks, wireless access networks dsl networks dynamic spectrum management (dsm) successes, plc and dsl networks, as well as access network performance. The annual International Conference on Access Networks (AccessNets) aims to provide a forum that brings together researchers and scientists from academia as well as man- ers and engineers from industry to meet and exchange ideas and recent work on all aspects of access networks. AccessNets 2008 was the third edition of this event, which was successfully held in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, during October 15–17, 2008. The conference consisted of two keynote addresses, five invited talks, seven technical sessions, and two panel sessions. Leonid Kazovsky from Stanford University and Kevin Schneider, Chief Technology Officer of ADTRAN, delivered their exciting keynote - dresses on “Future Evolution of Broadband Access,” and “Carrier Ethernet and the Evo- ing Access Networks,” respectively. Maurice Gagnaire, Martin…