Title :
A VHDL implementation of onu auto-discovery process for EPON
Author :
Mady, Alie EI-Din ; Tonini, Andrea
Author_Institution :
Comput. Sci. Dept., Univ. Coll. Cork, Cork
Abstract :
Recently EPON has been appeared to introduce the convergence of low-cost Ethernet equipment and fiber infrastructure, it is appeared to be the best candidate for the next-generation access network. Auto-discovery process is an important process in EPON system. . Indeed, this paper provides a MAC design following the IEEE 802.3ah standard of the MPCP auto-discovery process at the ONU side. It describes as well the validation and verification steps using an OLT model and finally, the synthesis result are presented.
Keywords :
IEEE standards; access protocols; hardware description languages; optical fibre LAN; EPON; Ethernet passive optical network; IEEE 802.3ah; MAC design; ONU autodiscovery process; VHDL; medium access control; optical network unit; EPON; Ethernet networks; Internet telephony; Next generation networking; Optical buffering; Optical fiber cables; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber networks; Optical network units; Passive optical networks;
Conference_Titel :
Networking and Media Convergence, 2009. ICNM 2009. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cairo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3776-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3778-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICNM.2009.4907186
