Differentiated services supported by bandwidth guarantee polling (BGP) scheme in ethernet passive optical networks

Author

Zhu, Yongqing ; Ma, Maode ; Cheng, Tee Hiang

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ.

fYear

2004

fDate

7-7 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

371

Lastpage

375

Abstract

Ethernet passive optical network (EPON) has been considered the best choice for access networks. Since EPON is supposed to deliver different types of traffic, supporting differentiated services in EPON becomes an important issue. This paper discusses how the differentiated services can be provided by medium access control (MAC) protocol in EPON. We combine the bandwidth guarantee polling (BGP) scheme with the strict priority scheduling specified by IEEE 802.1D to support differentiated services. The simulation results show that our proposed technique can effectively provide differentiated services to different classes of traffic in the EPON

Keywords

DiffServ networks; access protocols; optical fibre LAN; optical fibre subscriber loops; scheduling; telecommunication traffic; BGP; Ethernet passive optical network; bandwidth guarantee polling; bandwidth guarantee polling scheme; differentiated service; medium access control protocol; priority scheduling; Access protocols; Bandwidth; Communication system traffic control; EPON; Ethernet networks; Intelligent networks; Media Access Protocol; Optical network units; Quality of service; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications Systems, 2004. ICCS 2004. The Ninth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore, China

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8549-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCS.2004.1359401

Filename

1359401