1   
 Scope  
 2     References  
 3     Definitions   
 4     Abbreviations and acronyms         
 5     Conventions and terminology        
        5.1     ONT and ONU      
        5.2     Data encapsulation
method and deprecation of ATM transport        
        5.3     Traffic monitoring
versus non-status-reporting          
        5.4     Bandwidth assignment
versus bandwidth allocation  
        5.5     G-PON time division
multiplexing architecture         
        5.6     Disambiguation of the
concept of frame       
        5.7     Concepts associated
with upstream physical layer overhead 
 6     G-PON system architecture          
        6.1     Network architecture
and reference configuration    
        6.2     Parameters of the GTC
layer           
        6.3     Functional blocks    
        6.4     Interoperability
between G-PON and B-PON        
 7     G-PON transmission convergence
layer overview 
        7.1     GTC protocol stack            
        7.2     GTC key functions  
        7.3     Functions of Sublayers
in GTC        
        7.4     Dynamic bandwidth
assignment       
        7.5     Resource allocation
and quality of service (QoS)     
 8     GTC layer framing            
        8.1     Downstream GTC frame
structure   
        8.2     Upstream burst
structure     
        8.3     Mapping of GEM frames into
GTC payload            
        8.4     Status reporting DBA signalling and configuration    
 9     GTC messages  
        9.1     PLOAM
message format    
        9.2     Control
messages   
10     Activation method            
       10.1     Overview  
       10.2     Activation mechanism
at the ONU 
       10.3     OLT support of the
activation process        
       10.4     OLT and ONU timing
relationships            
       10.5     Power levelling      
11     Alarms and performance
monitoring         
       11.1     Alarms   
       11.2     Performance monitoring     
12     Security     
       12.1     Basic threat model 
       12.2     Encryption system  
       12.3     Key exchange and
switch-over      
13     Forward error correction 
       13.1     Introduction           
       13.2     Downstream FEC  
       13.3     Upstream FEC      
       13.4     ONU activation
transmissions        
14     OMCI transport
mechanism         
       14.1     OMCI
transport schema    
       14.2     OMCI
adapters     
Annex A – Implementers' guide for Recommendation UIT-T
G.984.3     
        A.1     Introduction           
        A.2     AES mechanism and
golden vectors           
        A.3     FEC encoding golden
vector          
        A.4     Scrambler diagram 
        A.5     A downstream frame
example        
        A.6     ONU activation process     
        A.7     PLOAM messages            
        A.8     Transmitter block
diagram  
Appendix I – Transport of user traffic over GEM channels     
        I.1        Mapping of GEM
frames into the GTC payload     
        I.2        TDM over GEM   
        I.3        Ethernet over GEM           
        I.4        SDH over GEM   
        I.5        IP over GEM        
Appendix II – Survivability in GTC-based systems     
Appendix III – GEM header error control decoding     
Appendix IV – OLT activation procedures overview     
       IV.1     Common part        
       IV.2     ONU-specific part 
       IV.3     Automatic ONU
Discovery Method           
       IV.4     POPUP process    
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Appendix V – Downstream line data pattern conditioning     
        V.1     Idle
pattern control 
        V.2     Intentional
PON disruption 
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