The exponential traffic growth, demand for high speed wireless data communications, as
well as incessant deployment of innovative wireless technologies, services, and …

These days there is a clear trend toward extending the reach of passive optical networks to
cover large geographical areas, which enables reduction of the number of central offices …

Recently, the IEEE 802.3 ca Task Force has been working to standardize the next-
generation Ethernet passive optical network (NG-EPON) to fulfill future bandwidth demands …

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 …

Next-generation Ethernet passive optical networks (NG-EPON) allow optical network unit
(ONU) transmission scheduling concurrently on multiple wavelengths. This increases the …

For an efficient utilization of the upstream bandwidth in passive optical network, a dynamic
bandwidth assignment mechanism is necessary as it helps the service providers in …

In time division, multiple access (TDMA)-based passive optical network (PONs), a dynamic
bandwidth assignment (DBA) is necessary for efficient utilization of the available bandwidth …

Passive optical network (PON) provides enough bandwidth for combining multiple service
providers׳ in addition to the fiber to the home (FTTH) network. Multiple optical line terminals …

The main problem of the deployment of long reach passive optical network (LR-PON) is that
it suffers from larger propagation delay. Multi-thread polling (MTP) based dynamic …

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 …