Securing passive optical networks against signal injection attacks

  • Authors:
  • Harald Rohde;Dominic A. Schupke

  • Affiliations:
  • Siemens Networks, Munich, Germany;Siemens Networks, Munich, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ONDM'07 Proceedings of the 11th international IFIP TC6 conference on Optical network design and modeling
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Passive optical access networks are susceptible to intended attacks and unintended failures. This paper discusses intrusion by user-side signalinjection resulting in reduced network accessibility and it proposes possible countermeasures. The central function is that an intruding signal can be switched off when it is present.