Demonstration of dynamic medium access control for APON and SuperPON

Author

Ringoot, E. ; Janssens, N. ; Tassent, M. ; Angeloupoulos, J. ; Blondia, C. ; Vetter, P.

Author_Institution

Alcatel Res. & Innovation, Antwerp, Belgium

Volume

3

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

1570

Abstract

A dynamic MAC (Medium Access Control) protocol demonstrator for ATM PON (Passive Optical Network) was realised and tested. The prototype is based on a SuperPON transport system, which allows implementing downstream grants per ONT (Optical Network Termination) or subdivided per T-Cont class (Traffic Container) and upstream requests by piggybacking or dedicated polling slots. The demonstrator platform was made configurable in order to evaluate dynamic bandwidth allocation schemes for SuperPON and for G.983.dba APON

Keywords

access protocols; asynchronous transfer mode; bandwidth allocation; optical fibre networks; quality of service; telecommunication traffic; wavelength division multiplexing; ATM PON; G.983.dba APON; ONT; SuperPON transport system; T-Cont class; WDM; dedicated polling slots; downstream grants; dynamic MAC protocol; dynamic bandwidth allocation; medium access control; optical network termination; passive optical network; piggybacking; traffic container; upstream requests; wavelength division multiplexing; Access protocols; Asynchronous transfer mode; Bandwidth; Bit rate; Channel allocation; Media Access Protocol; Optical fiber networks; Passive optical networks; System testing; Time division multiple access;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 2001. GLOBECOM '01. IEEE

Conference_Location

San Antonio, TX

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7206-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2001.965844

Filename

965844