Conference: Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC) 2015, 22-26 March, Los Angeles, CA, 2015.

 

Abstract: In this work, we demonstrate and validate a converged optical-wireless testbed, formed by integrating TSON sub-wavelength networking in UK and the NITOS wireless solution in Greece. End-to-end service provisioning and flow differentiation are demonstrated across two networks communicating over the GEANT. In our demonstration, the Time-Shared-Optical-Network (TSON) network provides backhaul capabilities to a hybrid LTE/WiFi wireless network aiming at interconnecting fixed and mobile users with computational resources. We explain how TSON can facilitate differentiated services across the converged infrastructure by prioritizing and differentiating traffic flows per time-slice. TSON takes advantage of enhanced functional blocks to address different quality of service (QoS) levels in the wireless backhaul domain in L2/L3 which also can be mapped to end users QoS requirements, nameley the Quality Class Indicator metrics in LTE and 802.11e in WiFi.