Title :
Optical network unit (ONU) power saving in time division multiplexed passive optical networks (TDM-PONs)
Author :
Yuanqiu Luo ; Effenberger, Frank
Author_Institution :
Futurewei (Huawei) Technol., Bridgewater, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We review power saving in TDM-PONs and propose a mechanism to save the ONU power consumption with backward compatibility. Evaluation results show our proposal reduces ONU receiver power consumption as compared with G-PON and BiPON.
Keywords :
optical receivers; passive optical networks; power consumption; time division multiplexing; ONU receiver; TDM-PON; backward compatibility; optical network unit; power consumption; time division multiplexed passive optical networks; Data processing; Engines; Optical network units; Passive optical networks; Power demand; Proposals; Receivers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-5575-2994-7
DOI :
10.1364/OFC.2014.Tu3C.5
