Comparison and Analysis of PON´s Access Architectures for Smart Grid Applications

Author

Ma Yonghong ; Zhang Pan ; Feng Liwei

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., North China Electr. Power Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Communication system is an important part of the strong Smart Grid, and information access is the key of the strong smart grid communication system. Passive optical network (PON) is the today´s most competitive broadband access technology. This paper presents an overview of time-division multiplexing (TDM), wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) and WDM-TDM cascaded PON architectures, and then compares quantitatively their transmission performance under different access bandwidth requirements with the help of Optisystem design software. The comparison and analysis results can provide a theoretical reference to the selection and practical deployment of PON architectures for smart grid applications.

Keywords

passive optical networks; smart power grids; time division multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; Optisystem design software; PON; WDM-TDM; access architectures; communication system; passive optical network; smart grid applications; smart grid communication system; time-division multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; Bandwidth; Optical attenuators; Optical fibers; Optical network units; Passive optical networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM), 2011 7th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

ISSN

2161-9646

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6250-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/wicom.2011.6040254

Filename

6040254