Online gaming and P2P file sharing in next-generation EPONs

Author

Maier, Martin ; Herzog, Martin

Volume

48

Issue

2

fYear

2010

fDate

2/1/2010 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

48

Lastpage

55

Abstract

Understanding the social impact of advanced access technologies and witnessing that applications are increasingly based on content provided by end users, we take a look at next-generation EPON networks and elaborate on their suitability to efficiently support online gaming and P2P file sharing applications by means of evolutionary WDM and long-reach PON upgrades. We examine a scalable all-optical integration of WDM EPONs, which exploits the unique traffic characteristics of P2P file sharing and online gaming applications, and supports them with an incremental add-on service with fallback option.

Keywords

computer games; optical fibre networks; peer-to-peer computing; wavelength division multiplexing; P2P file sharing; all-optical integration; evolutionary WDM; incremental add-on service; next-generation EPON; online gaming; passive optical network; EPON; File servers; IP networks; Network servers; Optical fiber networks; Passive optical networks; Peer to peer computing; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MCOM.2010.5402663

Filename

5402663