Publication: A multi-agent EPON emulator
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Date
2015
Authors
Sadon S.K.
Din N.M.
Radzi N.A.
Yaacob M.
Rawi N.I.M.
Maier M.
Al-Mansoori M.H.
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
Passive Optical Networks (PONs) are widely used for the Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) solutions. Next generation PONs provides the platform for better service delivery at the access network. Managing the PON's bandwidth is important to satisfy the users with different requirements and to ensure quality of service (QoS) while providing a well-managed network with minimum loss of bandwidth. It can be further optimized by making it more intelligent in providing service differentiation for different requirements based on a distributed approach. This paper presents an Ethernet-based PON emulator for optimizing bandwidth usage in the upstream environment where users need to share bandwidth based on an access mechanism. EPON emulator software is developed based on real time traffic data for EPON to validate different decentralized Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation (DBA) algorithms using Prolog. Prolog is an Artificial Intelligence based computer language, provides a platform for allowing ease of programming of the DBA using natural like language. � 2014 IEEE.
Description
Bandwidth; Fiber optic networks; Fiber to the x; Frequency allocation; Multi agent systems; Passive optical networks; Photonics; Quality of service; Distributed approaches; Dynamic bandwidth allocation; Emulator; EPON; Multi agent; Real-time traffic datum; Service delivery; Service differentiation; PROLOG (programming language)