Novel dynamic flow allocation scheme over ethernet passive optical networks.

A new dynamic flow allocation scheme to guarantee quality of service and more stabilized performance is proposed, replacing an Ethernet passive optical network. This new scheme improves a priority-based access network, converting it to a flow-based access network with a new access mechanism and scheduling algorithm. With this new scheme, a network service provider can provide upper limits of transmission delays by the flow. The modeling and simulation results with mathematical analyses obtained by this scheme are also provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]