Digital Filter Multiple Access PONs With DSP-Enabled Software Reconfigurability

M. Bolea, R. P. Giddings, M. Bouich, C. Aupetit-Berthelemot, J. M. Tang

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    Abstract

    Digital filter multiple access (DFMA) passive optical networks (PONs) are, for the first time to our knowledge, proposed and extensively investigated, where digital signal processing (DSP)-enabled, software-reconfigurable, digital orthogonal filtering is employed in each individual optical network unit (ONU) and the optical line terminal to enable all ONUs to dynamically share the transmission medium under the control of the centralized software-defined controller and the transceiver-embedded DSP controllers. The DFMA PONs fully support software-defined networking with the network control further extended to the physical layer. As digital filtering is the fundamental process at the heart of the proposed DFMA PONs, the filtering-induced tradeoffs among upstream transmission capacity, filter design flexibility, and filter DSP complexity are examined, based on which optimum filter design guidelines are identified for various application scenarios. Furthermore, the performance characteristics of theDFMA PONs are also numerically explored in terms of maximum achievable upstream transmission capacity, differential ONU launch power dynamic range, and ONU count-dependent minimum received optical power.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)215-222
    Number of pages8
    JournalIEEE Journal of Optical Communications and Networking
    Volume7
    Issue number4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2015

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