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Reliability considerations of the emerging PON-based 4G mobile backhaul RAN architecture

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This work proposes a fully distributed protection mechanism for a ring-based wavelength-division-multiplexed passive optical network (PON) broadband access architecture that can be utilized as an all-packet-based converged fixed-mobile access networking transport infrastructure for backhauling mobile traffic. Such an architecture will enable the true integration of PON-based and fourth-generation mobile broadband access technologies into the envisioned fixed-mobile platform. Specifically, this paper proposes two different fault detection and recovery schemes, namely, fully distributed and hybrid (distributed/centralized). In this ring-based architecture, each optical network unit can independently detect, manage, and recover most of the networking failure scenarios. The proposed protection schemes are capable of protecting against both node and distribution/trunk fiber failures and enable the recovery of all network traffic including upstream, downstream, and LAN data. In addition, these schemes can also protect against any combination of concurrent double failures including trunk/distribution fiber breaks and node failures. The hybrid architecture delivers these efficient resilience capabilities and incurs almost no additional power loss compared to that of the normal working architecture.

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  1. Deparment of Electrical Engineering, City College of the City University of New York, 138th St. and Convent Ave., New York, NY , 10031, USA

    H. Erkan, R. Dorsinville & M. Ali

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus, 1678 , Nicosia, Cyprus

    G. Ellinas

  3. Department of Engineering, University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus

    A. Hadjiantonis

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This work was partially supported by the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation’s Framework Programme for Research, Technological Development and Innovation 2008 (DESMI 2008), co-funded by the Republic of Cyprus and the European Regional Development Fund, and specifically under Grant ANAVATHMISI/PAGIO/0308/30, and by the National Science Foundation, USA under Grant ECCS-0901563.

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Erkan, H., Ellinas, G., Hadjiantonis, A. et al. Reliability considerations of the emerging PON-based 4G mobile backhaul RAN architecture. Photon Netw Commun 29, 40–56 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11107-014-0459-x

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