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Optimisation of Heterogeneous Migration Paths to High Bandwidth Home Connections

Authors:
Frank Phillipson

Keywords: Access networks, Migration Optimisation, Geometric Models

Abstract:
Operators are building architectures and systems for delivering voice, audio, and data services at the required speed for now and in the future. For fixed access networks, this means in many countries a shift from copper based to fibre based access networks. This paper proposes a method to optimise the migration path, heterogeneously per central office area, using geometric models as input. The method results in a detailed migration path that meets a required bandwidth coverage. For this, two models are presented. The first minimises the total costs meeting a bandwidth requirement per period, the second minimises the deviation from this bandwidth requirement meeting a budget constraint per period. While the data used for the migration path optimisation is in practice hard to gather, the use of geometric modelling is proposed. This modelling approach can estimate the total CapEx of a migration step using only two simple parameters per Central Office area.

Pages: 1 to 6

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2017

Publication date: April 23, 2017

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3964

ISBN: 978-1-61208-544-9

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from April 23, 2017 to April 27, 2017