MAC Protocol Design for the Support of DBA in OFDMA-PON Networks
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Lim, Wansu
Gliwan, Ali
Kourtessis, Pandelis
Kanonakis, Konstantinos
Tomkos, Ioannis
Senior, J.M.
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2299/14741
Abstract
Original MAC frame formats have been developed to provide recommendations for new protocol designs in OFDMA-PONs. The portrayed scalability of the Dynamic Subcarrier Allocation (DScA) protocol is complemented by the granularity of hybrid OFDMA/TDMA topologies. Modelling of the DScA performance in OPNET has recorded the maximum 312.5 Mbits/s transmission rate capacity per ONU achieved at less than 2 ms packet delay and more than 95% network throughput depending on ONU offered load.