Title : 
A novel energy and delay efficient OFDMA “Meta-MAC” scheme for heterogeneous PON coexistence
         
        
            Author : 
Kanonakis, Konstantinos ; Cvijetic, Neda ; Tomkos, Ioannis ; Wang, Ting
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Athens Inf. Technol. (AIT), Athens, Greece
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We propose and evaluate a novel energy and delay efficient OFDMA-based master medium access control (MAC) framework - the meta-MAC - for heterogeneous coexistence in next-generation PON, featuring both low computational complexity and low end-to-end packet delay.
         
        
            Keywords : 
OFDM modulation; computational complexity; frequency division multiple access; passive optical networks; computational complexity; end-to-end packet delay; energy-delay-efficient OFDMA meta-MAC scheme; heterogeneous PON coexistence; master medium access control framework; next-generation PON; Bandwidth; Computational complexity; Delay; Heuristic algorithms; Media Access Protocol; Optical network units; Passive optical networks;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2012 17th
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Busan
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4673-0976-9
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
2166-8884
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/OECC.2012.6276411