Optical transmission device and bandwidth allocation method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10925058-B2
Application number	US-201716310050-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 19, 2017
Priority date	Jun 20, 2016
Publication date	Feb 16, 2021
Grant date	Feb 16, 2021

Abstract

An optical transmission device includes a bandwidth allocator that periodically reads bandwidth request information indicating a bandwidth required for a termination device to transmit an uplink signal from a storage and allocates a bandwidth to the termination device on the basis of the read bandwidth request information, and a timing adjuster that adjusts a period at intervals of which the bandwidth allocator reads the bandwidth request information from the storage on the basis of the timing at which resource information used to generate the bandwidth request information is received from an upper device.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An optical transmission device comprising:
a bandwidth allocator configured to periodically read bandwidth request information indicating a bandwidth required for a termination device to transmit an uplink signal from a storage and to allocate a bandwidth to the termination device on the basis of the read bandwidth request information; and
a timing adjuster configured to adjust a period at intervals of which the bandwidth allocator reads the bandwidth request information from the storage on the basis of a timing at which resource information used to generate the bandwidth request information is received from an upper device.

2. The optical transmission device according to claim 1 , wherein the timing adjuster is further configured to notify the bandwidth allocator of a difference in time between a time at which the storage stores the bandwidth request information based on the resource information and a time at which the bandwidth allocator reads the bandwidth request information from the storage and to cause the bandwidth allocator to adjust the period on a basis of the difference in time.

3. The optical transmission device according to claim 1 , wherein the timing adjuster is further configured to notify the bandwidth allocator of a time obtained by adding a time required until the bandwidth request information based on the resource information is stored in the storage to a time at which the resource information is received and to cause the bandwidth allocator to adjust the period on a basis of the time of which the bandwidth allocator is notified.

4. The optical transmission device according to claim 2 , wherein the timing adjuster is further configured to notify the bandwidth allocator of the difference in time when the difference in time is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value and not to notify the bandwidth allocator of the difference in time when the difference in time is smaller than the threshold value.

5. A bandwidth allocation method comprising:
a bandwidth allocation step including periodically reading bandwidth request information indicating a bandwidth required for a termination device to transmit an uplink signal from a storage and allocating a bandwidth to the termination device on the basis of the read bandwidth request information; and
a timing adjustment step including adjusting a period at intervals of which the bandwidth request information is read from the storage in the bandwidth allocation step on the basis of a timing at which resource information used to generate the bandwidth request information is received from an upper device.

Assignees

• Nippon Telegraph & Telephone

Inventors

• Shimada Tatsuya
• Kobayashi Takayuki
• Ou hiroshi
• Hisano Daisuke

Classifications

• H04W72/21

  in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network · CPC title

• H04W72/23

  in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal · CPC title

• H04W72/0453 Primary

  Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA · CPC title

• H04Q2011/0086

  Network resource allocation, dimensioning or optimisation · CPC title

• H04Q11/0067 Primary

  Provisions for optical access or distribution networks, e.g. Gigabit Ethernet Passive Optical Network (GE-PON), ATM-based Passive Optical Network (A-PON), PON-Ring · CPC title