Feature Issue on Optical Access Networks (OAN) As an inexpensive, simple, and scalable
solution for broadband access, Ethernet passive optical networks (EPONs) have the …

Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) systems have been deployed widely as a
broadband access network solution. Recently, 10Gigabit EPON (10G-EPON) has been …

The Ethernet passive optical network is being regarded as one of the best solutions for next-
generation optical access solutions. In time-division multiplexing-passive optical network …

Ethernet passive optical networks (EPONs) have attracted considerable attention from the
industry, as they offer a simple, highly flexible and cost-effective solution to the problem of …

Ethernet passive optical networks (EPONs) are a low-cost:, high-speed solution to the
bottleneck problem of the broadband access network. A critical issue of EPONs is the utility …

An uplink access scheme for the Ethernet passive optical network (EPON), called broadcast
polling (BP), has been proposed. In the BP scheme, the optical line terminal (OLT) knows all …

Interleaved Polling with Adaptive Cycle Time (IPACT) is one of the earliest proposed polling
schemes for dynamic bandwidth allocation in Ethernet Passive Optical Networks (EPONs) …

Several dynamic bandwidth allocation (DBA) protocols have been introduced to utilize
upstream channel in Ethernet Passive Optical Networks (EPONs). In this paper, a novel …

Online scheduling algorithms incur no idle time problem but with less bandwidth efficiency,
while offline scheduling algorithms focus on bandwidth efficiency but with idle time …

Ethernet passive optical networks (PONs) are an emerging access network technology that
provides a low-cost method of deploying optical access lines between a carrier's central …