Advances in Passive Optical Networks
Rationale
As an ultimate broadband access solution for future Internet, passive optical network (PON) brings many advantages such as cost-effectiveness, energy savings, service transparency, and signal security over other last/first-mile technologies. We have witnessed significant development of time division multiple access (TDMA) PON such as IEEE 802.3ah Ethernet PON (EPON) and ITU-T G.984 Gigabit PON (GPON) in the past several years, targeting to provide high-quality triple-play services for residential users (e.g., AT&T U-verse and Verizon FiOS). However, future Internet applications, apart from the triple-play service, e.g., peer-to-peer (P2P) social networking, on-line video sharing, grid computing, and mobile Internet, along with their unique traffic characteristics and huge bandwidth requirements, pose big challenges for current PON design and migration, which in turn are driving legacy TDMA PON towards ultra high-speed next-generation PON such as
wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) PON and optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) PON, and/or a hybrid WDM/OFDM/TDM PON. Moreover, PON could also be used as mobile backhaul for macro cells and/or femtocells; therefore, how to appropriately integrate PON with heterogeneous wireless access networks is another interesting topic, which makes sense to both carriers and wireless service providers. The overall questions to ask are what are the implications of those new emerging applications over PON systems and how next-generation PON can be designed to cater for future Internet, which basically targets low power consumption for green communications, flexible and efficient bandwidth management especially in the upstream for various types of traffic flows, smooth and cost-efficient upgradability, high splitting ratio with long reach, and low capital expenditure (CAPEX) /operation expenditure (OPEX). As a result, not only new system
architecture, but also new optical network unit (ONU) and optical line terminal (OLT) techniques and advanced medium access control (MAC) schemes including multi-point control protocol (MPCP) are expected to meet those new targets, depending on different use cases.
Scope
The goal of this special issue of IEEE Communications is to feature new advances and directions in next-generation passive optical networks. Topics of interest include, but not limited to, the following categories:
Next-generation PON architecture (e.g., 40G or 100G-PON)
Hybrid PON system (e.g., WDM/TDM PON, WDM/OFDM PON)
Physical layer solutions (e.g., AGC/CDR/power budget) for next-generation PON
New material, chips, circuits, and protocols for energy-efficient PON
Medium access control protocols, payload encapsulation, and OAM for next-generation PON
Quality of service (QoS) management schemes (e.g., bandwidth allocation and traffic access control) in next-generation PON
Optical wireless integration for optimized traffic backhaul and traffic engineering.
Optical access networks virtualization technologies to support multiple legacy PONs
Access security, reliability and management issues in next-generation PON
New services and novel application development and deployment scenarios using next-generation PON infrastructure.
Next-generation PON design/planning/deployment/migration strategies and CAPEX/OPEX analysis
Next-generation PON standards, demonstrations, test-beds and prototypes.
Submissions Guideline
This special issue solicits original work that must not be under consideration for publication in other venues. Authors should refer to the IEEE Communications author guidelines at http://dl.comsoc.org/livepubs/ci1/info/sub_guidelines.html for information about content and formatting of submissions. Manuscripts must be written in English and contain substantial tutorial content and be readable to a broad general audience working in other fields. All articles must be submitted through IEEE Manuscript Central (http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com) before the deadline.
Schedule
Submissions deadline: September 10, 2010
Author notifications: November 10, 2010
Final manuscripts due: November 30, 2010
Publication date: February 2011
Guest Editors
Dr. Mahmoud Daneshmand
AT&T Labs Research, USA
Email: daneshmand@att.com
Dr. Chonggang Wang
InterDigital Communications, USA
Email: cgwang@ieee.org
Dr. Wei Wei
Ciena Coporation, USA
Email: wwei@ieee.org
Dr. Frank Effenberger
Huawei Technologies, USA
Email: feffenberger@huawei.com
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