The Passive Optical Network (PON) has been evolving continuously in terms of architecture
and capacity to keep up with the demand for high-speed Internet access in the access …

Everlasting increase of connected devices and users in communication networks carry out
enormous traffic volumes. This reason places the network in a position to fine tune the …

The rapid deployment of passive optical access networks (PONs) increases the global
energy consumption of networking infrastructure. This paper focuses on the minimization of …

An Ethernet passive optical network (EPON) has the least energy consumption among
access network technologies and is the best candidate for improving energy consumption by …

Economical and environmental concerns necessitate network engineers to focus on energy-
efficient access network design. The optical network units (ONUs) are predominate sources …

The main energy consumption in computer networks is the access networks. The passive
optical network (PON) has the least energy consumption among access network …

The design of energy-efficient optical network units (ONUs) in passive optical networks
(PONs) has been studied extensively in the literature. Time-and wavelength-division …

The optical access networks (OANs) provide an attractive solution to the bandwidth
bottleneck problem of the last mile. However, it has been proved (Baliga et al. in J Lightwave …

In passive optical network (PON), in addition to efficient bandwidth management, a dynamic
bandwidth assignment (DBA) scheme can also enhance the energy efficiency performance …

The energy efficiency and delay performance of PON are two inversely related phenomena.
Higher sleep time of the Optical Network Units (ONUs) results in higher upstream (US) …