Paper Info
Title
Multilevel bandwidth measurements and capacity exploitation in gigabit passive optical networks
Abstract
The authors report an experimental investigation on the measurement of the available bandwidth for the users in gigabit passive optical networks (GPON) and the limitations caused by the Internet protocols, and transfer control protocol (TCP) in particular. We point out that the huge capacity offered by the GPON highlights the enormous differences that can be showed among the available and actually exploitable bandwidth. In fact, while the physical layer capacity can reach value of 100 Mb/s and more, the bandwidth at disposal of the user (i.e. either throughput at transport layer or goodput at application layer) can be much lower when applications and services based on TCP protocol are considered. In the context of service level agreements (SLA) verification, we show how to simultaneously measure throughput and line capacity by offering a method to verify multilayer SLA. We also show how it is possible to better exploit the physical layer capacity by adopting multiple TCP connections avoiding the bottleneck of a single connection.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1049/iet-com.2014.0165
Communications, IET
Keywords
Field
DocType
Internet,bandwidth allocation,contracts,passive optical networks,transport protocols,GPON,Internet protocols,SLA verification,bit rate 100 Mbit/s,capacity exploitation,gigabit passive optical networks,multilevel bandwidth measurements,multiple TCP connections,physical layer capacity,service level agreements,transfer control protocol
Internet Protocol,Gigabit,Application layer,Computer science,Computer network,Real-time computing,Transport layer,Physical layer,Transmission Control Protocol,Throughput,Goodput
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
8
18
1751-8628
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.41
8
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Arianna Rufini182.09
Marco Mellia22748204.65
Edion Tego3101.95
Francesco Matera481.25