User involvement in FTTH deployments as a Key to success.

 

-Dr. Albert Domingo

Thesis Supervisor Prof. Dr. Miquel Oliver

26/11/2015

 

 

 

 
 
 
Brief Thesis Description:
Broadband connections are becoming an essential service of any home. To be connected at more than 100Mbps, to 1Gbps, or to 10Gbps, is more an economical problem, rather than a technological one. The dissertation purpose is to proof that users are the key piece of the fiber access networks – especially of Fiber to the Home – by developing a techno-economic sharing access network scenario model. Currently, the network is dominated by Top-down deployments made by telecom operators that still see in the user the consumer of their services. However, this dissertation implements a Bottom-up approach, and the user becomes a stakeholder of the access network. Moreover, he turns into one investor of the fiber work, and gets more benefits by adding more users, thus deriving into a community-shared network model. The role of State, Municipalities, and private operators are analyzed as possible factors that may help or hinder those user initiatives.
 
Experience as a PhD Student:
The years spent in my PhD have been some of those that change your lifetime. During those years I've been able to teach undergrads, but also learn with some international researchers that were also open to collaborate with UPF. The director is also an important pillar of you PhD, and at UPF you will find groups ready to help you in your research. During my PhD it has been also posible to be involved in some international projects, as well as to be part as a speaker in some international conferences where I was able to grow as researcher but also to find some research improvements that are imposible to find resting behind your desk.