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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2023
Cable Television Laboratories, Inc., Louisville, CO (US);
Haipeng Zhang, Broomfield, CO (US);
Junwen Zhang, Shanghai, CN;
Jingjie Zhu, Erie, CO (US);
Mu Xu, Broomfield, CO (US);
Zhensheng Jia, Superior, CO (US);
Cable Television Laboratories, Inc., Louisville, CO (US);
Abstract
A method for allocating bandwidth to a first ONU, a second ONU, MONUs, and MONUs includes, during an allocation cycle, (i) granting a respective upstream time slot to, of a plurality of N ONUs, only each of the MONUs, and (ii) granting a first upstream time slot to the first ONU. Each of the MONUs and MONUs is one of the plurality of N ONUs. The method also includes, during a subsequent cycle, (i) granting a respective upstream time slot to, of the plurality of N ONUs, only each of the MONUs. The N ONUs includes a skipped-ONU that is one of either, and not both, the MONUs and the MONUs. The method includes, during the subsequent allocation cycle, granting a second upstream time slot to a second ONU, which is not one of the plurality of N ONUs.