Extending ONU lifetime beyond 72 hours in EPON for emergency communications

Jingjing Zhang, Nirwan Ansari

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Abstract

The first 72 hours of any disaster relief are critical for saving lives, and are thus referred to as the "golden 72 hours". In order to extend the optical network unit (ONU) lifetime beyond 72 hours in Ethernet passive optical network (EPON) for emergency communications, this paper proposes proper MAC control, traffic scheduling, and admission control schemes to achieve extremely low energy consumptions of ONUs. Simulation results show that the proposed schemes can efficiently reduce the energy consumptions of ONUs by over 90%. Therefore, the lifetime of an ONU whose battery originally has 8-hour backup time is potentially able to be extended beyond 72 hours.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2012 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications, ICNC'12
Pages287-291
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event2012 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications, ICNC'12 - Maui, HI, United States
Duration: Jan 30 2012Feb 2 2012

Publication series

Name2012 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications, ICNC'12

Other

Other2012 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications, ICNC'12
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityMaui, HI
Period1/30/122/2/12

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Keywords

  • EPON
  • MAC control
  • admission control
  • energy efficiency
  • traffic scheduling

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