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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2005
Martin D. Carroll, Watchung, NJ (US);
Ilija Hadzic, Millington, NJ (US);
Dusan Suvakovic, Marina Del Rey, CA (US);
Martin D. Carroll, Watchung, NJ (US);
Ilija Hadzic, Millington, NJ (US);
Dusan Suvakovic, Marina Del Rey, CA (US);
Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A processing device, configured to implement at least a portion of a scheduled medium-access protocol (SMAP) in a communication system, comprises a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, and one or more additional hardware modules. The functionality of the portion of the SMAP implemented in the processing device is partitioned between software, stored in the memory and executable by the processor, and hardware comprising the one or more additional hardware modules. In an illustrative embodiment, the processing device comprises a head-end device of a passive optical network, and the functionality comprises at least a scheduler and a grant generator, with the scheduler being implemented in the software and the grant generator being implemented in the hardware.