A Study on Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation Mechanism for an Enhancement of E-PON's Upstream Throughput

E-PON의 상향 대역전송 성능 향상을 위한 동적대역할당 메커니즘 연구

  • Published : 2007.08.31

Abstract

IEEE ratified IEEE802.3ah as the standard of E-PON, while it leaved the specific method of upstream bandwidth allocation as a role of implementation vendors. Many experts have researched the method of enhancing upstream bandwidth throughput and released related papers. This paper presents another novel mechanism to enhance upstream throughput. This mechanism performs the management of upstream queues by giving the minimum bandwidth of different level to each queue. In order to process packets on each queue we adopted a modified weighted DRR technology. By doing so, the transmission throughput of upstream packets can be largely enhanced. The experimental simulation of this mechanism showed an enhancement of bandwidth utilization more than 10% in comparison to legacy method.

IEEE는 E-PON에 대한 구현 표준으로 IEEE802.3ah을 제정하였으나 구체적인 상향대역할당 메커니즘에 대해서는 별도로 규정하지 않고 제조업체의 몫으로 남겨 두었다. 이에 관련 전문가들은 E-PON에서의 상향 전송에 대한 성능 개선 및 다양한 서비스 수용을 위해서 여러 방식의 상향대역할당 기법들을 연구하였다. 본 논문에서는 상향 트래픽 전송 성능을 개선하는 동적대역할당 메커니즘을 제안한다. 이 메커니즘은 ONU의 상향전송 큐별로 최소보장 상향대역을 다양하게 설정할 수 있도록 하였으며, 큐에 대기 중인 패킷을 전송하기 위하여 큐별로 가중치를 부여한 DRR(Deficit Round Robin) 기법을 적용하였다. 시뮬레이션에 의해 상향대역 이용률이 기존방식 대비 10% 이상 개선됨을 보여 주었다.

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