In a short time, IEEE EPON has progressed from initial trials to a market-leading optical
access technology that supports business and residential services, including IPTV, VoIP …

Ethernet-PON (EPON) is the most promising access network due to its internet friendliness
and low cost nature. EPON comprises an OLT in the central office and many ONU/ONTs in …

The recent high-bandwidth demand multimedia applications have driven the need for higher
bandwidth and faster access network architecture. However, conventional single-channel …

Channel zapping is the act of changing from one television channel to another. Zap
response time is the time it takes for the new TV channel to start playing from the time a …

Globally, there is a significant rise in the number of connected devices. Every device has an
access to wide variety of telecom services among which voice, video and best effort (BE) …

In this letter, we present a passive optical network (PON) polling mechanism for services that
require low-latency performance, which achieves delay performance gains reaching 57 …

Feature Issue on Passive Optical Network Architectures and Technologies We describe the
research that has been performed in the field of the dynamic bandwidth allocation algorithm …

This article proposes a PRNN/ERLS-based predictive QoS-promoted dynamic bandwidth
allocation (PQ-DBA) scheme for upstream transmission in Ethernet passive optical network …

Sleep and doze power-saving modes are the common ways to reduce power consumption
of optical network units (ONUs) in Ethernet passive optical network (EPON). The doze mode …

An upstream access scheme for Ethernet passive optical networks, called the intelligent
fuzzy-logic-based dynamic bandwidth allocation algorithm (IFLDBA) has been proposed …