• DocumentCode
    1460758
  • Title

    Improving Energy Efficiency in Upstream EPON Channels by Packet Coalescing

  • Author

    Rodríguez-Pérez, Miguel ; Herrería-Alonso, Sergio ; Fernández-Veiga, Manuel ; López-García, Cándido

  • Author_Institution
    Telematics Eng. Dept., Univ. of Vigo, Vigo, Spain
  • Volume
    60
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    4/1/2012 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    929
  • Lastpage
    932
  • Abstract
    In this paper, we research the feasibility of adapting the packet coalescing algorithm, used successfully in IEEE 802.3az Ethernet cards, to upstream EPON channels. Our simulation experiments show that, using this algorithm, great power savings are feasible without requiring any changes to the deployed access network infrastructure nor to protocols.
  • Keywords
    optical fibre LAN; passive optical networks; IEEE 802.3az Ethernet card; energy efficiency; packet coalescing algorithm; upstream EPON channels; Bandwidth; Delay; EPON; IEEE 802.3 Standards; Optical network units; Passive optical networks; Power demand; EPON; Energy efficiency; packet coalescing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Communications, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0090-6778
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TCOMM.2012.022712.110142A
  • Filename
    6162927