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.

Invited Papers.- HOWRAN: An Hybrid Optical Wireless Radio Access Network for WiMAX Antennas Backhauling.- The Audacity of Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) Networks.- When Are Online and Offline Excess Bandwidth Distribution Useful in EPONs?.- Cost-Performance Planning of Municipal Wireless Access Networks.- Greener Copper with Dynamic Spectrum Management.- Full Papers.- Performance Comparison of Orthogonal and Quasi-orthogonal Codes in Quasi-Synchronous Cellular CDMA Communication.- Supporting Session and Access Point Mobility in a Large Multi-provider Multi-vendor Municipal WiFi Network.- A Fast MAC-Layer Handover for an IEEE 802.16e-Based WMAN.- A Conflict-Free Low-Jitter Guaranteed-Rate MAC Protocol for Base-Station Communications in Wireless Mesh Networks.- Coexistence of Collocated IEEE 802.11 and Bluetooth Technologies in 2.4 GHz ISM Band.- Enabling Broadband as Commodity within Access Networks: A QoS Recipe.- A Simulator of Periodically Switching Channels for Power Line Communications.- Placement of Base Stations in Broadband Power Line Communications Access Networks by Means of Multi-criteria Optimization.- Modeling of Channel Allocation in Broadband Powerline Communications Access Networks as a Multi-Criteria Optimization Problem.- Topology Design of Hierarchical Hybrid Fiber-VDSL Access Networks with Enhanced Discrete Binary PSO.- Near-Optimal Multi-user Greedy Bit-Loading for Digital Subscriber Lines.- Case for Dynamic Reconfigurability in Access Networks.- Fragmentation in a Novel Implementation of Slotted GPON Segmentation and Reassembly.- TCP Performance over Gigabit-Capable Passive Optical Networks.- A Fast Channel Switching Method in EPON System for IPTV Service.- WDM Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation Schemes for Ethernet PONs.- VoIP Performance with Aggressive AMC andSINR Feedback for WiMAX Downlink.- Performance of Adaptive Sub-carrier and Bit Allocation Algorithms for Multi-user OFDM Wireless Systems.- Proportional Increase Multiplicative Decrease (PIMD) Wireless Scheduler: An Efficient Scheduler for IEEE 802.11e HCF.- Appropriate Templates for Broadband Access in Non-developed and Developing Countries.- A Unified Framework of the Performance Evaluation of Optical Time-Wavelength Code-Division Multiple-Access Systems.- Performance Analysis of Multi-format WDM-RoF Links Based on Low Cost Laser and SOA.- Performance Evaluation of the Cable Bundle Unique Power Back-Off Algorithm.- Estimating Video Quality over ADSL2+ under Impulsive Line Disturbance.- Wireless Channel Condition Aware Scheduling Algorithm for Hybrid Optical/Wireless Networks.- Planning Multitechnology Access Networks with Performance Constraints.- Loop Identification and Capacity Estimation of Digital Subscriber Lines with Single Ended Line Testing.- Optical CDMA with Embedded Spectral-Polarization Coding over Double Balanced Differential-Detector.- Robust Coverage and Performance Testing for Large-Area Wireless 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.