Title :
Security issues due to reflection in PON physical medium
Author :
Mendonça, Cláudia ; Lima, Mário ; Teixeira, António
Author_Institution :
Inst. de Telecomun., Univ. de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
Abstract :
Different PON ODN configurations are characterised in terms of reflections for several OLT conditions. The ability for an eavesdropper to recover the data is measured for different receivers, gain schemes and bit rates to discover which parameters depends the attacker capability.
Keywords :
passive optical networks; OLT condition; PON ODN configuration; PON physical medium; bit rates; gain scheme; optical distribution network; passive optical network; security issue; Bit error rate; Connectors; Gain; Passive optical networks; Receivers; Reflection; Security; BER tests; TDM-PON; eavesdropping; return loss analysis; security;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2012 14th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Coventry
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2228-7
Electronic_ISBN :
2161-2056
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2012.6254487
