While the backbone networks have experienced substantial changes in the last decade; the access networks have not changed much. Recently, passive optical networks (PONs) seem to be...
Abstract—We propose an Optical Line Terminal (OLT) centric Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation (DBA) scheme based on individual requests from service queues in Optical Network Units (ON...
Abstract--Ethernet passive optical networks (EPONs) are designed to deliver services for numerous applications such as voice over Internet protocol, standard and high-definition vi...
Ahmad R. Dhaini, Chadi M. Assi, Martin Maier, Abda...
— After identifying that current GMPLS specifications only allow for the implementation of a call blocking mode of operation that handles immediate-request calls (not book-ahead...