Patent ID: 11881891
Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. An optical network unit (ONU), configured to communicate in an optical network with an optical line terminal, OLT, and to forward packets to the OLT in accordance with a dynamic upstream allocation map, the ONU comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the ONU to perform:
receiving, from the OLT, fragmentation allocation for fragmenting one or more packets;
processing the packets in accordance with the fragmentation allocation to obtain processed packets; and
forwarding, to the OLT, the processed packets in accordance with the dynamic upstream allocation map,
wherein the fragmentation allocation is determined based on information on OLT resources available for processing the packets from the ONU, the fragmentation allocation indicating at least one of enabling or disabling fragmentation for data traffic for the ONU, and
wherein the dynamic upstream allocation map for the ONU is based on the fragmentation allocation.