Pereira, João Paulo2010-02-022010-02-022010Pereira, João Paulo (2010). Architecture to integrate broadband access networks and wireless grids. In International Conference on Networks for Grid Applications. Berlin: Springer. p. 119-130. ISBN 978-3-642-11732-9.http://hdl.handle.net/10198/1656Today, the access networks face two main challenges: the increasing bandwidth demand and mobility trends. All this will require fundamental changes to the operations of access networks, the functionality of network nodes and the architecture itself. By other side, the evolution of computing and communication networks toward decentralized and distributed systems implies that all the intelligence is on the edge nodes of the networks. Integrating wireless devices with the traditional wired grid infrastructure will allow the access (transfer, processing, etc) to the information that is now scattered across the different devices. In this paper, we present a new architecture and a cost model to support the new requirements of broadband access (fixed and nomadic users) and wireless grids in an integrated way.engWireless gridsAccess networksBroadband access technologiesTechno-economic cost modelconference object