Novel Dynamic Bandwidth Management Approach for Software Defined Optical Access and Aggregation Networks

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mingjun Guo ◽  
Lei Wang ◽  
Yan Wang ◽  
Xue Chen
Keyword(s):  
Management Approach ◽  
Bandwidth Management ◽  
Optical Access ◽  
Dynamic Bandwidth

scholarly journals An Energy-Efficient Distributed Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation Algorithm for Passive Optical Access Networks

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 2264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamzeh Khalili ◽  
David Rincón ◽  
Sebastià Sallent ◽  
José Ramón Piney
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Bandwidth Allocation ◽  
Access Networks ◽  
Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation ◽  
Sleep Mode ◽  
Optical Access Networks ◽  
Optical Access ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Dynamic Bandwidth

The rapid deployment of passive optical access networks (PONs) increases the global energy consumption of networking infrastructure. This paper focuses on the minimization of energy consumption in Ethernet PONs (EPONs). We present an energy-efficient, distributed dynamic bandwidth allocation (DBA) algorithm able to power off the transmitter and receiver of an optical network unit (ONU) when there is no upstream or downstream traffic. Our main contribution is combining the advantages of a distributed DBA (namely, a smaller packet delay compared to centralized DBAs, due to less time being needed to allocate the transmission slot) with energy saving features (that come at a price of longer delays due to the longer queue waiting times when transmitters are switched off). The proposed algorithm analyzes the queue size of the ONUs in order to switch them to doze/sleep mode when there is no upstream/downstream traffic in the network, respectively. Our results show that we minimized the ONU energy consumption across a wide range of network loads while keeping delay bounded.

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