  The fifth generation (5G) cellular communication system will have several
advanced features, majority of which will come into existence for the first
time. According to the ITU recommendations, 5G will provide minimum 3 GB/s end
to end data rates under the static conditions and in the mobile condition the
minimum data rate is 100 Mb/s. The latency will be brought down to 1 ms and the
device densities will increase by many folds. These features cannot be provided
in the pure wireless domain. Certainly, the support of the optical networks is
essential to provide these advanced features in 5G communication. These
features need special architectures. In this article, we provide advanced
optical wireless hybrid architectures for 5G networks. We explain the
importance of this architecture and also show the nodal configuration of these
hybrid networks.
