Title :
A study of flexible bandwidth allocation in statistical OFDM-based PON
Author :
Cano, Ivan N. ; Escayola, Xavier ; Peralta, A. ; Polo, Victor ; Santos, Maria C. ; Prat, Josep
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Signal Theor. & Commun., Univ. Politec. de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Abstract :
The upstream of an OFDM-PON with direct modulated lasers tuned in temperature was experimentally tested. Results demonstrate flexible bandwidth allocation, and show it constitutes an efficient strategy to cope with the differential link-loss among the users in the PON.
Keywords :
OFDM modulation; bandwidth allocation; frequency division multiple access; lasers; passive optical networks; direct modulated laser; flexible bandwidth allocation; link-loss; orthogonal frequency division multiple access; passive optical network; statistical OFDM-based PON; Bit error rate; OFDM; Optical attenuators; Optical fibers; Optical network units; Passive optical networks; DBA; OFDM; differential link-loss; statistical PON;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2013 15th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cartagena
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2013.6602853
