FiWi network planning for WiFi enabled gram panchayats of India: A frame work using component placement optimization.

• Paper proposes a FiWi network planning for creating the WiFi enabled villages (Gram Panchayats) of India. • The proposed planning provides the optimized position of wireless routers and ONUs in terms of latitude and longitude. • For optimizing position of wireless routers and ONUs, we propose to use customized SMA algorithm. • Simulation has been performed for four gram panchayats of Indore region of India to make them WiFi enabled. • Cost estimation has been given to create the complete network. Fiber Wireless (FiWi) access network consists of high speed passive optical network (PON) at back end and wireless mesh network at front end. It is emerging as the most prominent access network due to its inherent feature. It may provide fast Internet services at minimum possible cost. Many of the villages of the India are still not connected with high speed network hence the present paper provides FiWi network planning for creating the Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) enabled villages (Gram Panchayats) of India. The main aim of the paper is to deploy the cost effective FiWi network to provide the faster internet services at reasonable prices to the users of the gram panchayat (GP) in India. The area of the GP and the user's location in particular GP is taken as input for network planning. The proposed planning provides the optimized position of wireless routers and Optical Network Units (ONUs) in terms of latitude and longitude. For optimizing position of wireless router and ONUs, we propose to use customized Slime Mould algorithm (SMA). We considered four gram panchayats of Indore region of India to make them WiFi enabled using FiWi access network. The customized SMA algorithm provides the best possible position and number of wireless routers and ONUs to connect all the users of gram panchayat. Beside, the total fiber length from the Optical Line Terminal (OLT) to all the ONUs and total cost estimation is also given to create the complete network. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]