DBA (Dynamic Bandwidth

Allocation) Overview
Wenjia Wang
Walt Soto
Anh Ly

Didi Ivancovsky
Tony Anderson
Ron Rundquist

EFM Interim, October 2001

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Outline
What is DBA?
Benefit of DBA
DBA Service Requirements
DBA Performance Requirements
DBA Signaling Requirements

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What is DBA
What is DBA?
Mechanisms in place to dynamically change upstream
BW on a millisecond/microsecond timescale

Why we need DBA?

Improves the efficiency of the PON upstream bandwidth
by dynamically adjusting the bandwidth among the
ONUs in response to ONU burst traffic requirement
Network operators can add more end subscribers for a
given PON due to the more efficient utilization
DBA allows more flexible SLAs for PONs with large
(i.e. 32) splits
The end subscribers can enjoy enhanced services, such
as those bandwidth peaks beyond the traditional fixed
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How DBA works

SLA ( Video )

Maximum

ONT
A

Guaranteed
Minimum

Demand

Granted
BW

Demand A

Grant A

SLA ( Data)

Maximum

ONT
B

Minimum = 0

Demand

Demand B

Granted
BW

OLT

Total BW

Grant B

SLA ( Voice )

ONT
C

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Maximum =
Guaranteed=
Minimum

Demand

Granted
BW

Grant C

Demand C
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The Value of DBA

Utilization and Delay Impact
0.04
Static-voice
Pkt Loss Ratio

Maximum Utilization
Without DBA: 40%
With DBA: 80%
Double capacity
3dB more Revenue

0.03

Static-multimedia

with DBA

Static-video
Static-data

0.02

DBA-voice

w/o DBA

DBA-multimedia

0.01

DBA-video
DBA-data

0
0

0.25

0.5

0.75

Load Parameter (x)

1

0.1
Delay (sec)

Average Transfer Delay

Without DBA: 100 ms
With DBA: <10 ms
>10dB more speed

Static-voice
Static-multimedia
Static-video
Static-data
DBA-voice
DBA-multimedia
DBA-video
DBA-data

DBA delta

0.01

0.001

0.0001
0

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0.25

0.5

0.75

Load Parameter (x)

DBA Service Requirement - Introducing

T-CONT
T-CONTs: Traffic Containers (T-CONTs)
carry traffic flows / connections and are used for
the management of upstream bandwidth allocation
in the PON section of the Transmission
Convergence layer.
T-CONTs are primarily used to improve the
bandwidth utilization in PON section.

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T-CONT BW Terminologies
Highest Priority

Fixed BW
Guaranteed
Assured BW

Non-Assured
BW
Additional

Lowest Priority

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Best Effort
BW

Fixed BW: reserved upstream BW,

cyclically allocated regardless of
demand.
Assured BW- similar to fixed,
but BW may not be given without
demand.
Non-Assured - bandwidth only
given if BW is available
but not guaranteed.
Best Effort - demand only met if
remaining upstream BW is
available.
Maximum BW - max BW that can
be allocated to a T-CONT.
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T-CONT Types and Relationships with

BW terminologies

Types: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Relationships

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Ap p lic a b le T -C O N T typ e s

B W T yp e

D e la y
S e n s itive

T yp e 1

F ix e d

Yes

As s u re d

No

N o n -As s u re d

No

B e s t E ffo rt

No

M ax.

No

T yp e 2

T yp e 3

T yp e 4

T yp e 5
X

DBA Performance Requirement

Speed of response
Waiting time for bandwidth allocation
Target at least millisecond (~ 1ms)

Transition time from ONU status change to steady

state
Target several millisecond (~ 3ms)

Fairness
Surplus bandwidth shall be FAIRLY allocated to all
relevant T-CONTs, according to the T-CONT
parameters
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DBA Signaling Requirement

Downstream bandwidth assignment
Supporting continuous change
Once every frame
Protect from error propagations

Upstream status reporting

Implicit ONT status report
Idle slot detection: OLT looks for idle slot in transmissions

Explicit ONT status report

ONT transmits reports of buffer status for OLT
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Upstream Signaling:
Implicit ONT Status Reporting
Idle slot detection (real time monitoring)
provides
Per T-CONT indication of empty buffers
No additional function required at ONT
First level of DBA support

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Upstream Signaling: Explicit ONT

Status Report: PSS PCBu embedded
Reporting
Every ONT/T-CONT can report its buffer
status in every upstream burst
Buffer queue length report format (default): 4
Byte / T-CONT
Buffer queue length coding (default): nonlinear
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Summary
DBA improves the PON upstream bandwidth
efficiency
DBA service, performance and signaling
requirements need to be satisfied

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Thank You

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