EPON versus APON and GPON: A detailed performance comparison

Journal of Optical Networking

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 298-319

  Hajduczenia, Marek ^a,b   Da Silva, Henrique J A ^b   Monteiro, Paulo P ^a,c  

^a Siemens Portugal   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CODES (STANDARDS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENCAPSULATION; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SCHEDULING;

ETHERNET PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORKS (EPON); GENERIC FRAMING PON (GPON); PACKET SIZE DISTRIBUTION (PSD); SOURCE AGGREGATION ALGORITHMS (SAA);

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EID: 33745259868     PISSN: 15365379     EISSN: 15365379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JON.5.000298     Document Type: Article

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