A novel approach for making energy efficient PON

S. H. Shah Newaz (1) , Angel Cuevas Rumin (2, 3, 4) , Gyu Myoung Lee (2, 3, 4) , Noel Crespi (5, 2, 3, 4) , Jun Kyun Choi (1)

1 KAIST - Department of Electrical Engineering [Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology]
2 TSP - RS2M - Département Réseaux et Services Multimédia Mobiles
3 SAMOVAR - Services répartis, Architectures, MOdélisation, Validation, Administration des Réseaux
4 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
5 R3S-SAMOVAR - Réseaux, Systèmes, Services, Sécurité

Nowadays Passive Optical Network (PON) requires that Optical Network Units (ONUs) wake up periodically to check if the Optical Line Terminal (OLT) has any message directed to them. This implies that ONUs change from sleeping mode in which they just consume 1 W to active mode in which the consumption goes up to 10 W. In many cases, the OLT does not have any packets for the ONU and it goes to sleep again, what supposes a waste of energy. In this paper, we propose a novel Hybrid ONU that relies on a low-cost and low-energy technology, IEEE 802.15.4, to wake up those ONUs that are going to receive a packet. Our first estimations demonstrates that our solution would save around 25000$ per year and OLT

Mots clés: Energy saving; PON; Sleep mode; Converged

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

S. H. Shah Newaz, Angel Cuevas Rumin, Gyu Myoung Lee, Noel Crespi, Jun Kyun Choi. A novel approach for making energy efficient PON. SIGCOMM 2011 : Annual Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication on the Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication, Aug 2011, Toronto, Canada. pp.428 - 429, ⟨10.1145/2018436.2018503⟩. ⟨hal-01464994⟩