ONU autodiscovery is the precondition for the normal operation of an EPON system. When an EPON system is running
ONU autodiscovery makes it work that a new ONU or malfunction ONU can be registered without any disturbing to the normal ONUs in the system. This results in good scalability and convenient operation & maintenance of PON systems. In this paper
we analyze the basic requirements of ONU autodiscovery
describe the whole process of autodiscovery in details
and compare different schemes for register collision avoidance.