The extended network span of next-generation long-reach passive optical networks (LR-
PONs) results in extremely long propagation delays that severely degrade the performance …

Optical and wireless technology integration has been proposed as one of the most
promising nominees for the next-generation broadband access networks for quite some …

In optical networks the effect of physical layer impairments can play an important role in the
routing and wavelength assignment decisions that are taken in the control layer …

TWDM PON is a promising candidate to become the backhauling infrastructure of Fixed
Mobile Converged (FMC) access-aggregation networks. One of the main features of a FMC …

Feature Issue on Passive Optical Network Architectures and Technologies Service providers
continuously stress the growing requirement for faster, cheaper, and more reliable …

Passive optical network (PON) technology offers an attractive cost-efficient alternative to
support 5G and Beyond 5G mobile network fronthauling (MFH). However, MFH for such …

In this paper, we present a novel traffic control and distributed multiplexing scheme based
on a hybrid long-reach fiber access network architecture. The proposed network architecture …

Passive optical network (PON) is a popular technology, in recent days, which can be merged
with peer-to-peer (P2P) network architecture. In P2P architecture, there is no need for a …

A software-defined hybrid passive optical network (HPON) architecture is proposed, in which
multiple PON systems using various physical layer (PHY) multiplexing technologies can …

Current network operators are focused mainly on providing and selling network services on
top of the network infrastructures they own and manage. The end user has no control over …