A novel medium access control protocol for passive optical network supporting local area networking capabilities

Authors:
Kang Yang;Minming Zhang;Deming Liu;Yinbo Qian;Lei Deng
Affiliations:
School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China 430074 and Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Wuhan, China 430074 and Nati ...;School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China 430074 and Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Wuhan, China 430074 and Nati ...;School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China 430074 and Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Wuhan, China 430074 and Nati ...;School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China 430074 and Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Wuhan, China 430074 and Nati ...;School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China 430074 and Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Wuhan, China 430074 and Nati ...
Venue:
Photonic Network Communications
Year:
2011

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Abstract

An alternate solution for Ethernet passive optical networks (EPON) providing local area networking (LAN) capabilities is proposed in this article. Our solution adopts a star coupler-based PON architecture and uses radio frequency subcarrier multiplexed transmission for the LAN traffic delivery. The proposed medium access control (MAC) protocol supports a fully distributed control plane among the optical network units (ONUs) for ONU---ONU communication as well as upstream access to the OLT. The simulation results indicate that the proposed MAC protocol outperforms the others in terms of the average packet end-to-end delay, especially for LAN traffic.