Abstract

Recently, a novel passive optical network (PON) has been proposed based on orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) technology. The OFDMA-PON provides the opportunity for the convergence of wireline and wireless services. Moreover, virtual subcarrier scheduling can be achieved by virtualization, thus hiding the difference of heterogeneous multiplexing methods in the OFDMA-PON supporting wireline and wireless services. In the multi-segment OFDMA-PON topology, each segment is connected to a distribution fiber. If all distribution fibers are under maintenance simultaneously, the service continuity will be disrupted, thus necessitating an appropriate virtual subcarrier scheduling scheme. In this paper, by migrating the traffic of virtual subcarriers during each maintenance batch, only a partial set of distribution fibers is maintained, leaving the remaining ones to fully support the operation. We formulate the problem aiming to minimize the number of maintenance batches while guaranteeing an acceptable scheduling period. The NP-hard problem, feasibility conditions, and lower bound are analyzed. We also design a novel virtual subcarrier scheduling algorithm to solve the problem. Simulations show that the heuristic solution well matches the lower bound with a high convergence ratio of 93%. The optimal scheduling period is also determined.

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