Abstract
By taking advantage of the huge bandwidth provision of wavelength channels, wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) passive optical network (PON) has become a promising future-proof access network technology to meet the rapidly increasing traffic demands resulted from the popularization of Internet and sprouting of bandwidth-demanding applications [7, 126]. In WDM PON, a number of wavelengths are used to provision bandwidth to ONUs in both upstream and downstream, rather than sharing a single wavelength in each stream in TDM PON. Since ONUs may share the usage of a number of wavelengths, a MAC layer control protocol is needed to coordinate the traffic transmission such that the collision between traffic from different ONUs can be avoided.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology |
| Publisher | Springer Verlag |
| Pages | 53-65 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Edition | 9781461439387 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2013 |
Publication series
| Name | SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology |
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| Number | 9781461439387 |
| ISSN (Print) | 2191-530X |
| ISSN (Electronic) | 2191-5318 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Biotechnology
- General Chemical Engineering
- General Mathematics
- General Materials Science
- Energy Engineering and Power Technology
- General Engineering