Method and apparatus to reduce the impact of raman interference in passive optical networks with RF video overlay

摘要

Raman interference (also known as Raman scattering) during an idle frame transmission state in a passive optical network (PON) having radio frequency video overlay is reduced by generating and transmitting data packets having both random data and random length. Randomly varying both the packet data content and the packet length can achieve significant improvement in Raman interference reduction. The random packet data and length in effect spreads the interference across a spectrum wide enough that there is no interference effect perceptible to a television viewer.

主权项

1. A method for reducing interference in a passive optical network
(PON) having radio frequency video overlay during an idle frame transmission state, the method comprising: detecting an idle frame transmission state in response to a signal indicating that packet data is not available: generating a first random number as a random length for an idle pattern and generating a second random number as random data of the idle pattern; generating frames having headers comprising the first random length while idle frame transmission state is detected, generating frames having headers with destination addresses not associated with any optical network terminal of the PON while the idle frame transmission state is detected; generating frames for transmission on the PON using the idle pattern in response to the detection of the idle frame transmission state; and generating frames for transmission on the PON having source data while the idle frame transmission state is not detected.