Fibre-Wireless DBA Environment using LABVIEW and USRP

Abstract

Fiber-wireless (Fi-Wi) networks provide an attractive solution to bring broadband services with bigger bandwidth to the users from the access network. Fi-Wi environment would require a platform that can emulate the environment and a study on how to optimize the bandwidth usage in the network while not jeopardizing the Quality of Service. A good integration of hardware and software is needed to build the platform while imitating the fiber and wireless connections. Hence, the platform is usable to further improve the network performance by allowing some algorithm coded behind the system. This paper discusses two experiments that explore the viability of LABVIEW and Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) to build the Fi-Wi platform and simulate a selected dynamic bandwidth algorithm (DBA), Non Status Reporting which is available in Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON). This experimental study is important to embark a good start to realize the DBA of real time traffics in Fi-Wi platform in the future.