High Data Rate Extension With Bonding
AssigneeFuturewei Technologies, Inc.
InventorsYuanqiu Luo, Frank Effenberger, Duane Remein
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Abstract
A method of fragmented packet transmission in a multiple-channel passive optical network (PON), comprising fragmenting, by a Gigabit-PON encapsulation method (GEM)/next generation-PON encapsulation method (XGEM) engine of a network element, data into a plurality of packet fragments; encapsulating, by the GEM/XGEM engine, the plurality of packet fragments into frames; scheduling, by a bonding block of the network element, transmission of the frames on a plurality of channels, wherein an order for transmitting the frames is based in part on channel availability; and transmitting, by a transmitter of the network element, the frames to a receiver on the plurality of channels according to the scheduling.
Claims21
A method of fragmented packet transmission in a multiple-channel passive optical network (PON), comprising:
- fragmenting, by a Gigabit-PON encapsulation method (GEM)/next generation-PON encapsulation method (XGEM) engine of a network element, data into a plurality of packet fragments;
- encapsulating, by the GEM/XGEM engine, the plurality of packet fragments into frames;
- scheduling, by a bonding block of the network element, transmission of the frames on a plurality of channels, wherein an order for transmitting the frames is based in part on channel availability;
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- transmitting, by a transmitter of the network element, the frames on the plurality of channels according to the scheduling.
A method of fragmented packet reception in a multiple-channel passive optical network (PON), comprising:
- receiving, at a receiver, a plurality of encapsulated packet fragments over a plurality of channels, wherein each packet fragment of the plurality of packet fragments comprises a header;
- assembling the plurality of packet fragments according to arrival times of respective headers of the plurality of packet fragments;
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- buffering, by a processor, the plurality of packet fragments in a sequence based on the arrival times of the respective headers.
A network element configured to generate a multiple-channel passive optical network (PON) layer, comprising:
- a non-transitory memory storage comprising instructions;
- one or more processors in communication with the memory, wherein the one or more processors execute the instructions to:
- fragment data into a plurality of packet fragments;
- encapsulate the plurality of packet fragments into one or more frames;
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- schedule transmission of the one or more frames on a plurality of channels via a transmission schedule, wherein an order for transmitting the frames is based in part on channel availability;
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- a transmitter in communication with the one or more processors and configured to transmit the one or more frames on the plurality of channels according to the transmission schedule.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.