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Power management has been advanced on a crucial factor in the design of modern access networks. Furthermore, the proliferation of optical networking in the last mile led major Telecom unions, such as the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), to emerge energy consumption as a critical objective of the next generation passive optical networks (NG-PONs). In particular, the standardization of the...