Abstract
Access Networks based on Passive Optical Network (PON) technology can offer transport services to broadband service providers, such as mobile backhauling/fronthauling for Mobile Network Operators and multi-ONU Service Level Agreements for Virtual Network Operators. Besides that, Infrastructure Service Provider (InP) also provides broadband access services to end-users, such as residential subscribers and single or multi-site enterprises. In such a scenario, the InPs support diverse customers in the same PON. This paper proposes a bandwidth slicing mechanism to assure bandwidth isolation for different PON customers who rent part of a PON infrastructure from the InP. We introduce a Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation algorithm for Ethernet PONs called MAB-IPACT, which assures bandwidth on different granularity: conventional customers with a single ONU, multi-ONU customers owning a group of ONUs and providing a single type of service, and multi-ONU customers having diverse types of services. The MAB-IPACT algorithm also prioritizes bandwidth distribution among subgroups of ONUs of the same multi-ONU customer. A subgroup of ONUs is a subset of ONUs that belongs to the same multi-ONU customer, which are employed for the same type of service (e.g., ONUs for business service.). Simulation results show that the proposed mechanism improves the network performance of multi-ONU customers with subgroups of ONUs serving different services.






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For the sake of clearness and brevity, herein after, \(A_{S_i}\) is omitted from the offered load values of subgroup \(S_i\).
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This work was partially sponsored by Grant #15/24494-8, São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), CAPES and CNPq.
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Ciceri, O.J., Astudillo, C.A. & da Fonseca, N.L.S. DBA algorithm for the support of multi-tiered bandwidth guarantee in Ethernet passive optical networks. Photon Netw Commun 43, 46–58 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11107-022-00967-x
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