Comparison of queuing disciplines for fiber to the home networks

The growth of internet traffic coupled with the socio-economic factors of a knowledge-based economy, asks for leveraging the network infrastructure in a manner, that would be able to meet current and future demands. It is to be assumed that the only future proof technology that will be able to cater to the explosive growth of broadband infrastructure in the upcoming interactive multimedia services is fiber to the home. Further generations of passive optical networks will be available in the future which will be geared towards better quality of service, lower cost and newer services in the same way as happened in the xDSL era. The main focus of this paper and simulations is to create a customer premise passive optical based network with a client server operating mode, and to compare the quality of service parameters utilizing some of the well known scheduling algorithms. For the ethernet delay and traffic received characteristics, the Deficit Weighted Round Robin Scheduling algorithm was found to display better performance compared to Weighted Round Robin and First in First Out.