The research initiatives addressed in this thesis are geared towards improving the
performance of passive optical networks (PONs) through the development of advanced …

For dynamic bandwidth allocation (DBA) in optical communication systems a novel scheme
is proposed. The scheme is based on burst-polling delta DBA. A higher quality of services …

In this thesis, we propose a new time division duplex (TDD)-based MAC protocol for
WDM/Ethernet passive optical network (WE-PON) architecture over tree topology. On this …