A priority mechanism for the IEEE 802.3ah EPON

Author

Kamal, Ahmed E. ; Blietz, Brian F.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Eng., Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2005

Firstpage

1879

Abstract

In first mile networks, traffic may belong to different priority classes, which have different levels of delivery urgency. In this paper we introduce a mechanism for network wide prioritized access in IEEE 802.3ah EPONs which use the MPCP protocol. The mechanism is simple, and is compatible with the standard MPCP protocol. The basic ONU protocol does not have to be changed, while the protocol used at the OLT side requires little, and simple changes. Several objectives of priority mechanisms are stated, and the developed mechanism is shown to satisfy the stated objectives through a simulation study. The proposed protocol can be used with any dynamic bandwidth algorithm for EPONs.

Keywords

IEEE standards; access protocols; optical fibre LAN; telecommunication network topology; telecommunication standards; telecommunication terminals; telecommunication traffic; Ethernet passive optical network; IEEE 802.3ah EPON; ONU; dynamic bandwidth algorithm; first mile network; multipoint control protocol; network traffic; optical network unit; standard MPCP; Access protocols; Bandwidth; Channel allocation; Communication system traffic control; EPON; Optical network units; Passive optical networks; Spine; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2005. ICC 2005. 2005 IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8938-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2005.1494666

Filename

1494666