A novel EPON architecture for supporting direct communication between ONUs

Liqian Wang; Xue Chen; Zhen Wang

doi:10.1117/12.803608

19 November 2008 A novel EPON architecture for supporting direct communication between ONUs

Liqian Wang, Xue Chen, Zhen Wang

Proceedings Volume 7137, Network Architectures, Management, and Applications VI; 71371N (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.803608
Event: Asia-Pacific Optical Communications, 2008, Hangzhou, China

Abstract

In the traditional EPON network, optical signal from one ONU can not reach other ONUs. So ONUs can not directly transmit packets to other ONUs .The packets must be transferred by the OLT and it consumes both upstream bandwidth and downstream bandwidth. The bandwidth utilization is low and becomes lower when there are more packets among ONUs. When the EPON network carries P2P (Peer-to-Peer) applications and VPN applications, there would be a great lot of packets among ONUs and the traditional EPON network meets the problem of low bandwidth utilization. In the worst situation the bandwidth utilization of traditional EPON only is 50 percent. This paper proposed a novel EPON architecture and a novel medium access control protocol to realize direct packets transmission between ONUs. In the proposed EPON we adopt a novel circled architecture in the splitter. Due to the circled-splitter, optical signals from an ONU can reach the other ONUs and packets could be directly transmitted between two ONUs. The traffic between two ONUs only consumes upstream bandwidth and the bandwidth cost is reduced by 50 percent. Moreover, this kind of directly transmission reduces the packet's latency.

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Liqian Wang, Xue Chen, and Zhen Wang "A novel EPON architecture for supporting direct communication between ONUs", Proc. SPIE 7137, Network Architectures, Management, and Applications VI, 71371N (19 November 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.803608

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