Title :
An efficiency-improved MAC protocol for asynchronous ONUs in OFDMA PONs
Author :
Lilong Liu ; Xuelin Yang ; Weisheng Hu
Author_Institution :
State Key Lab. of Adv. Opt. Commun. Syst. & Networks, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai, China
Abstract :
We propose an efficiency-improved MAC protocol for OFDMA PONs that dynamically assigns control subcarriers to eliminate synchronization need and exploit statistical multiplexing gain among traffic of ONUs for high performance in delay and throughput.
Keywords :
OFDM modulation; access protocols; frequency division multiple access; optical modulation; passive optical networks; statistical multiplexing; synchronisation; OFDMA PON; asynchronous ONU; control subcarriers; efficiency-improved MAC protocol; statistical multiplexing gain; synchronization elimination;
Conference_Titel :
Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), 2012 Asia
Conference_Location :
Guangzhou
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-6274-0
