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 …

Fiber to the premises has promised to increase the capacity in telecommunications access
networks for well over 30 years. While it is widely recognized that optical-fiber-based access …

Multi-thread polling (MTP) with offline scheduling and offline excess bandwidth distribution
has recently been proposed to overcome the long propagation delay of long-reach passive …

Hybrid fiber-wireless (FiWi) networks, which benefit from high bandwidth and ubiquitous
access of optical and wireless networks, have been identified as a promising technology …

This paper investigates the issue of infrastructure deployment and optimization (IDO) for Fog
network. The Fog network is a new networking paradigm for distributed Micro data center …

Seeking reduction of capital and operational costs on next-generation fiber networks is the
holy grail of network planning and deployment for all operators worldwide. In particular …

In recent years demand for high speed and robust wireless networks are increasing due to
the growth of accessing social networks from mobiles and computer systems. The recent …

Access networks must further advance to address the intensification of the requirements of
growing speeds and the usage of Internet applications, and time and wavelength division …

In this editorial, we first set the context for the subject matter of this special issue on passive
optical network (PON) supported networking. This context includes a discussion of optical …

Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) access network as a small cell backhaul is now becoming a promising
architecture to satisfy the rapid growth of demand for mobile data traffic. With increasing …