Control of ATM traffic accessing SuperPONs

Author

Angelopoulos, J.D. ; Koulouris, J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Athens Nat. Tech. Univ., Greece

fYear

1997

fDate

1-3 Jul 1997

Firstpage

584

Lastpage

588

Abstract

The SuperPON is an extension of the concept of the passive optical network (PON) based on the use of optical amplifiers which greatly increase the available power budget. This extra power is exploited to increase the range up to 100 km and the splitting ratio to reach 2000 network subscribers. The impact on the MAC of this high number of units compared with regular PONs is quite strong requiring the combination of quite different access mechanisms to satisfy the diverse quality requirements of residential services. Such a protocol is proposed

Keywords

access protocols; asynchronous transfer mode; fibre lasers; optical fibre networks; telecommunication traffic; time division multiple access; 100 km; ATM traffic; MAC protocol; SuperPON; TDMA; access mechanisms; optical amplifiers; passive optical network; power budget; range; splitting ratio; Access protocols; Asynchronous transfer mode; Costs; Delay; Media Access Protocol; Optical attenuators; Optical network units; Passive optical networks; Time division multiple access; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers and Communications, 1997. Proceedings., Second IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Alexandria

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7852-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCC.1997.616069

Filename

616069