Quality of Service in TDM/WDM Ethernet Passive Optical Networks (EPONs)

Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPONs) are currently being designed to deliver multiple services and applications, such as voice communications (VoIP), standard and highdefinition video (STV and HDTV), video conferencing (interactive video) and data traffic access network. The emergence of new bandwidth intensive applications and the continuous demand for more bandwidth in a bandwidth limited EPON require an upgrade from current TDM to WDM-based PON which is currently of huge interest in both the academia and industry. In this paper we propose three new Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation (DBAs) schemes for QoS support in WDM-based PON networks. These schemes can comply with any ONU architecture (tunable lasers or multiple fixed transceivers). However, they vary in their performances (i.e. different jitter, delay, bandwidth utilization etc.). We study the performance of these DBAs using extensive simulation experiments.