US 11,881,891 B2
Optical line terminal and an optical network unit
Bart Pauwels, Tessenderlo (BE); Michael Fivez, Lier (BE); Carl Mertens, Brasschaat (BE); Koenraad Schelfhout, Zwijndrecht (BE); and Werner Van Hoof, Aartselaar (BE)
Assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy, Espoo (FI)
Filed by Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy, Espoo (FI)
Filed on Sep. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/481,389.
Claims priority of application No. 20207306 (EP), filed on Nov. 12, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0149933 A1, May 12, 2022
Int. Cl. H04B 10/27 (2013.01); H04B 10/07 (2013.01); H04Q 11/00 (2006.01); H04J 14/02 (2006.01)
CPC H04B 10/07 (2013.01) [H04B 10/27 (2013.01); H04J 14/0245 (2013.01); H04J 14/0247 (2013.01); H04J 14/0249 (2013.01); H04J 14/0252 (2013.01); H04J 2203/0067 (2013.01); H04Q 11/0067 (2013.01); H04Q 2011/0047 (2013.01); H04Q 2011/0064 (2013.01); H04Q 2011/0086 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An optical line terminal (OLT), configured to communicate in an optical network with optical network units (ONU)s, and to receive packets from the ONUs, the OLT comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the OLT to perform:
determining a fragmentation allocation for respective ONUs based on information on OLT resources available for processing the packets from the ONUs, the fragmentation allocation indicating at least one enabling or disabling fragmentation for data traffic for the respective ONUs;
deriving an upstream bandwidth allocation map for the respective ONUs based on the determined fragmentation allocation; and
notifying the respective ONUs of the determined fragmentation allocation.