Method and apparatus for detecting optical network unit, and passive optical network system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9838150-B2
Application number	US-201314039715-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 27, 2013
Priority date	Mar 29, 2011
Publication date	Dec 5, 2017
Grant date	Dec 5, 2017

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and an apparatus for detecting an ONU, and a passive optical network system. The method includes detecting an identity code of an ONU in an open uplink empty window or an empty timeslot, and determining that an ONU corresponding to the identity code of the ONU is a rogue ONU according to the identity code of the ONU. A corresponding apparatus and passive optical network system are also provided in the embodiments of the present invention. In the passive optical network system, a rogue ONU is detected and determined quickly and efficiently, and an effect on an uplink service is reduced.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for detecting an optical network unit (ONU) in a passive optical network (PON) system including an optical line terminal (OLT) and a plurality of ONUs that communicate with the OLT via a shared optical transmission path, the method comprising:
detecting an ONU identity code in an open uplink empty window or an empty timeslot, wherein the ONU identity code is a specific sequence optical channel code that identifies a single ONU of the plurality of ONUs included in the PON system during the open uplink empty window or the empty timeslot, the ONU identity code sent if an optical module in the single ONU is faulty; and
determining that the single ONU corresponding to the ONU identity code is a rogue ONU according to the ONU identity code.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the ONU identity code is pre-configured.

3. An optical network unit (ONU) that is one of a plurality of ONUs included in an passive optical network, wherein the plurality of ONUs communicate with an optical line terminal (OLT) via a shared optical transmission path, wherein the ONU comprises:
an obtaining unit, configured to obtain an ONU identity code, wherein the ONU identity code is a specific sequence optical channel code that uniquely identifies the ONU during an open uplink empty window or an empty timeslot; and
a sending unit, configured to send the ONU identity code to the OLT in the open uplink empty window or the empty timeslot, the ONU identify code sent if an optical module in the ONU is faulty.

4. The optical network unit according to claim 3 , wherein the ONU further comprises a control module, configured to send a non-enable control signal and the ONU identity code to the obtaining unit; and
wherein the obtaining unit is further configured to receive the control signal and the ONU identity code, wherein the control signal and the ONU identity code are sent by the control module.

5. The optical network unit according to claim 3 , wherein:
the obtaining unit is further configured to read the ONU identity code, wherein the ONU identity code is stored in the optical network unit.

6. An optical line terminal (OLT) in a passive optical network (PON) system that further comprises a plurality of optical network units (ONUs) that communicate with the OLT via a shared optical transmission path, wherein the OLT comprises:
a detecting module, configured to detect whether an ONU identity code is received in an open uplink empty window or empty timeslot of the OLT, wherein the ONU identity code is a specific sequence optical channel code that identifies a single ONU of the plurality of ONUs included in the PON system during the open uplink empty window or the empty timeslot, the ONU identity code sent if an optical module in the single ONU is faulty; and
a processing module, configured to determine that the single ONU corresponding to the ONU identity code is a rogue ONU.

7. A passive optical network system comprising:
an optical line terminal (OLT); and
a plurality of optical network units (ONUs) that communicate with the OLT via a shared optical transmission path;
wherein the OLT is configured to:
receive an ONU identity code sent by one of the plurality of ONUs in an open uplink empty window or an empty timeslot, the ONU identity code sent if an optical module in the one of the plurality of ONUs is faulty, wherein the ONU identity code is a specific sequence optical channel code that identifies the ONU during the open uplink empty window or the empty timeslot; and
determine that the ONU corresponding to the ONU identity code is a rogue ONU according to the identity code of the ONU.

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd
• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Wan Min
• Zeng Xiaofei

Classifications

• H04J14/0252

  Sharing one wavelength for at least a group of ONUs, e.g. for transmissions from-ONU-to-OLT or from-ONU-to-ONU · CPC title

• H04Q11/0067

  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

• H04J14/086 Primary

  Medium access (H04J3/16 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H04Q2011/0083

  Testing; Monitoring · CPC title

• H04B10/077

  using a supervisory or additional signal · CPC title