Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Min-Hyo Lee

Su-Hyung Kim

A-Jung Kim

Jin-Hee Kim

Jae-Yeon Song

Tae-Sung Park

Se-Youn Lim

Yun-Je Oh

Shin-Hee Won

Young-Seok Kim

Whan-Jin Sung

Soon-Ho Jang

Do-In Choi

Tae-sung Park

Jong-Ho Yoon

Jae-Yoon Song

Ho-ll Oh

Hwan-Jin Sung

Jae-Youn Song

Do-Young Joung

Kyeong-Eun Han

Kye-Hyun Ahn

Hyuk-Gyu Park

Young-Chon Kim

Ho-Il Oh

A Dynamic bandwidth allocation method using OLT (Optical Line Terminal) and ONU (Optical Network Unit) for use in GE-PON (Gigabit Ethernet Passive Optical Network) system is disclosed. The OLT's scheduler performs scheduling upon receiving multiple-queue request information contained in the REPORT message from the ONU, and transmits a combined scheduling result associated with one ONU using a GATE message. An ONU's scheduler performs scheduling upon receiving a bandwidth allocated by the OLT, and allocates a transfer bandwidth to its own queues.

Dynamic bandwidth allocation method considering multiple services in ethernet passive optical network system

A Gigabit Ethernet passive optical network (GE-PON) having a double link structure is disclosed. The GE-PON includes an optical line terminal (OLT), a plurality of optical couplers, and a plurality of optical network units (ONUs). The OLT sets up an active link and a standby link in response to a registration request message received over an optical cable. Each of the ONUs is doubly connected with the OLT via the optical cable and is adapted to transmit the registration request message to the OLT, form the active link with the OLT via the optical cable if it receives an active registration message transmitted from the OLT in response to the registration request message, and form the standby link with the OLT via the optical cable if it receives a standby message from the OLT. The optical couplers are disposed between the OLT and each of the ONUs to doubly interconnect them via different optical cables.

Gigabit ethernet passive optical network having double link structure

MAC (Media Access Control) for an EPON (Ethernet Passive Optical Network system) defined in an IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) 802.3ah EFM (Ethernet in the First Mile) standard is implemented using general MAC based on an IEEE 802.3 standard. LLID (Logical Link ID) information is inserted at a predetermined position of a frame outside its preamble and the frame containing the LLID information is transferred to a higher layer so that general MAC can be used as MAC for the EPON system. A physical layer of the EPON system contains LLID information within a preamble and transfers the preamble containing the LLID information. An RS (Reconciliation Sublayer) configures a new Ethernet frame by inserting the LLID information at a predetermined position of the Ethernet frame outside the preamble. The RS transfers the new Ethernet frame to a higher data link layer of the EPON system. The data link layer transfers the new Ethernet frame containing the LLID information.

Method for implementing logical MAC in ethernet passive optical network system

A method of controlling a loop-back process between a local device and a remote device in an Ethernet passive optical network simplifies the initiation and the termination processes for a loop-back process by avoiding the use of Operation, Administration and Maintenance&#x2014;Packet Data Unit (OAM PDU) information along with a loop-back control OAM PDU. The method includes the steps of: (a) adding a predetermined field into a loop-back control OAM PDU in the loop-back process, the predetermined field having distinguishing messages for initiation of a loop-back process and messages for termination of a loop-back process; and (b) the local device and the remote device performing a loop-back process using the loop-back control OAM PDU.

Method of controlling loop-back process in Ethernet passive optical network

Disclosed is a upstream data transmission method in a gigabit Ethernet-passive optical network (GE-PON) system. In the GE-PON system including an optical line termination having a scheduler and optical network units connected to the optical line termination, the optical line termination receives bandwidth allocation request signals from the optical network units at a start of a first cycle, allocates transmission bandwidths to the respective optical network units in accordance with the bandwidth allocation request signals, and transmits the allocated transmission bandwidths to the respective optical network units before a second cycle that follows the first cycle.

Data transmission method in gigabit ethernet passive optical network

A GE-PON (Gigabit Ethernet Passive Optical Network) system and media access control method for the same are disclosed. In the GE-PON system, by employing MAC attributes of the gigabit Ethernet frames, an OLT (Optical Line Termination) transmits a downstream window containing both a control frame having timeslot position and size information in association with at least two ONUs and Ethernet frames to an ODN (Optical Distribution Network). The OLT analyzes contents of RAUs in an upstream window transmitted from the ONUs in a TDMA method and received from the ODN, and permits timeslot position and size corresponding to each of the ONUs. A plurality of ONUs, connected to the ODN, have their respective timeslot position and size allocated in response to their respective information contained in the control frame of the downstream window. RAU frames are transmitted having queue information and Ethernet frames associated with the allocated timeslots. As a result, by the above MAC structure of the GE-PON system, the OLT can be quickly intercommunicated with a plurality of ONUs.

Gigabit ethernet passive optical network system and media access control method for the same

An OAM capability discovery method in Ethernet passive optical network is disclosed. An OLT assigns identifications according to a registration request of the plurality of ONUs connected to the OLT. In response, the OLT transmits an OAM capability information message of the OLT to a random ONU from among the registered plurality of ONUs, and the random ONU transmits an OAM capability information message of the random ONU to the OLT, then finally the OLT transmits an OAM capability discovery completion message to ONU.

OAM capability discovery method in Ethernet passive optical network

A MAC (Medium Access Control) control block for controlling transmission of data between a plurality of MAC clients and a plurality of MACs in an Ethernet passive optical network (EPON) is provided. The MAC control block includes the plurality of MAC clients and the plurality of MACs associated with the MAC clients for forming a frame for data transmission; a plurality of optical multipoint (OMP) blocks connected between the MAC clients and the MACs for implementing a multipoint control protocol (MPCP); and a multipoint gating control block for controlling the OMP blocks so that when any one of the OMP blocks is transmitting the data, the other OMP blocks are prevented from transmitting data.

Multipoint gating control block in an Ethernet passive optical network and method therefor

Disclosed is a point-to-point emulation method for operating an Ethernet passive optical network having an optical line terminal (OLT) and a plurality of optical network units (ONUs) each connected to the OLT. A tag Ethernet frame transmitted between the OLT and the ONUs includes a destination address (DA) field representing a destination address, a source address (SA) field representing a source address, and an LLID field in which a unique LLID assigned to an object of the ONU side is recorded. The LLIDs are assigned to ports of a bridge or an L2 (Layer 2) switch of the OLT side on a one-to-one basis. The OLT, upon receiving a tag Ethernet frame, outputs an LLID field-deleted Ethernet frame to the bridge or L2 switch port to which an LLID in the received frame is assigned. The bridge or the L2 switch transmits the Ethernet frame to a port to which a previously learned destination address is assigned. The OLT regenerates a tag Ethernet frame by inserting into the Ethernet frame an LLID field in which an LLID of the destination ONU is recorded. The regenerated tag Ethernet frame is transmitted to the destination ONU.

Ethernet passive optical network and point-to-point emulation method

A GE-PON (Gigabit Ethernet-Passive Optical Network) system is provided that configures upstream and downstream frames on the basis of a variable-length Ethernet frame. The GE-PON system employs TDM (Time Division Multiplexing) for upstream packet transmission in a tree structure for a point-to-multipoint connection. A structure of a frame format is also provided that is capable of effectively accommodating Gigabit Ethernet traffic in the GE-PON system and a method is provided for implementing various functions such as initial ONU registration, late ONU registration, ranging, and dynamic bandwidth allocation in the GE-PON system.

Method for implementing various functions in gigabit ethernet-passive optical network system and structure of ethernet frame employed in the same

A method for checking whether a transmission is a multicast transmission or not is disclosed, which includes in an Ethernet passive optical network including an OLT and multiple ONUs connected to the OLT, checking whether a transmission is a multicast transmission or not by generating a multicast LLID that represents multicast information. Subsequently from a multicast MAC address in a MAC layer in the multiple ONUs or the OLT, so that at least one ONU from among the multiple ONUs or the OLT receives the multicast transmission, the method comprising the steps of: (1) modifying the multicast MAC address and mapping the modified address to a LLID field in a RS layer below the MAC layer; and (2) generating mode information, which represents a multicast transmission, being adjacent to the LLID field and locating the mode information, wherein, the RS layer checks whether a transmission transmitted to the ONU or the OLT is a multicast transmission or not.

Method for checking multicast LLID transmission in ethernet passive optical network

An idle pattern output-control circuit used in a point-to-multipoint communication based Gigabit Ethernet-passive optical network (GE-PON) is provided. In a GE-PON having an optical-line terminal (OLT), a plurality of optical-network units (ONUs) connected to each other via an optical-distribution network (ODN), a media-access controller (MAC), and a physical-coding sublayer (PCS), in which the PCS transmits idle-pattern data to a serializer/deserializer (SERDES) when there is no data to be transmitted to the OLT, an idle-pattern output-control circuit comprising a data converter for converting an idle-pattern data generated from the PCS into a low-level optical signal for subsequent transmission to the OLT, and a switching circuit for selecting data generated from the PCS for subsequent transmission to the SERDES when there is data to be transmitted and for selecting data converted by the data converter for subsequent transmission to the SERDES when there is no data to be transmitted.

Idle-pattern output control circuit used in a Gigabit Ethernet-passive optical network

Disclosed is a bandwidth allocation method for an optical line termination (OLT) in a Gigabit Ethernet passive optical network (GE-PON) having one OLT and a plurality of optical network units (ONUs) connected to the OLT. The method includes the steps of transmitting a registration request grant message for granting an opportunity for transmitting a registration request signal from the OLT to the ONUs; determining the number of ONUs that transmitted registration request messages in response to the registration request grant message; and segmenting a single time slot into a plurality of minislots, segmenting a partial bandwidth of each of the segmented minislots so as to accommodate the ONUs, and allocating the segmented bandwidths to the ONUs that transmitted the registration request messages as voice bands.

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Suwon-shi, South Korea

Min-Hyo Lee