Research Article

A Novel Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation Mechanism for Star-Ring-Based EPON

Table 2

Definition of parameters.

Number of ONUs32
Number of wavelength1
Upstream/downstream link capacity1 Gbps
OLT-ONU distance (uniform)10–20 km
ONU-ONU distance (uniform)1 km
Maximum cycle time1 ms
Guard time5  𝜇 s
Control message length0.512  𝜇 s
Sub-OLT buffer Size10 MB, 20 MB
ONU buffer Size10 MB
DBA computation time15  𝜇 s