A simulation study of the IPACT Protocol for Ethernet Passive Optical Networks

Author

Casoni, Maurizio

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Eng., Univ. of Modena & Reggio Emilia, Modena

Volume

4

fYear

2008

fDate

22-26 June 2008

Firstpage

309

Lastpage

311

Abstract

In this paper a particular passive optical network based on the Ethernet framing is investigated considering a typical tree-based topology. User stations are managed for upstream data transmissions by means of a polling algorithm which has also to support a dynamic bandwidth management. Here the Interleaved polling with adaptive cycle time (IPACT) algorithm is investigated and evaluated through simulation, exploiting the ns simulation tool. Different scheduling disciplines which the IPACT may employ are evaluated in terms of bandwidth distribution, cycle times and queue lengths.

Keywords

optical fibre LAN; optical fibre networks; time division multiplexing; Ethernet passive optical networks; IPACT protocol; dynamic bandwidth management; interleaved polling with adaptive cycle time; tree-based topology; Bandwidth; Data communication; Ethernet networks; Network topology; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber networks; Optical network units; Passive optical networks; Protocols; DBAIPACT; Ethernet; PON;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2008. ICTON 2008. 10th Anniversary International Conference on

Conference_Location

Athens

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2625-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2626-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2008.4598798

Filename

4598798