Fibre Wireless (FiWi) access technology integrates the existing broadband access technology and wireless access technology to fulfil the users’ demand for better Internet speed in “anytime anywhere” approach and cost-efficient manner. It is designed to make the best use of their advantages in terms of vast bandwidth, mobility, and cost effectiveness. However, there remain there remain several open and challenging issues that require concentrated research efforts to build such an access technology. ONU placement problem is one among these issues as Optical Network Unit (ONU) placement in FiWi plays a critical role in overall network deployment cost and resource optimization. Server methods using nature-inspired algorithms have been proposed in literature to find optimum ONU placement. In this paper, we present performance analysis of two such algorithms by considering different of scenarios for ONUs and wireless routers in a FiWi network. Finally, the present work carried out to compare throughput gain for the algorithms under varied ONU and router deployment.

Fiber Wireless, Networks, Optical Network Unit, Optimization, Throughput.