A flexible MAC protocol for all-optical WDM metropolitan area networks

Author

Strösslin, Thomas ; Gagnaire, Maurice

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., ETH Zurich, Switzerland

fYear

2000

fDate

2/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

567

Lastpage

573

Abstract

In a metropolitan sized high-speed Wavelength Division Multiplexed optical network (WDM MAN), Media ACcess (MAC) protocols can only obtain low delay and high performance when reservation based protocols are used. However, reservation protocols limit the maximum number of network nodes. In existing solutions, this limit is either very tight, or the transmission delay is increased to allow more stations. In this paper, a new MAC protocol called Signal-Reservation-Decoupling (SRD) is proposed. SRD is capable of increasing the number of nodes considerably. Transmission delay is kept low by strictly avoiding signal-retransmissions. SRD is message-aware which faciliates transport of higher-level Protocol Data Units (PDUs) like IP datagrams. Directing subsequent packets of a message without interruption improves throughput when tuning times are not neglected

Keywords

access protocols; metropolitan area networks; wavelength division multiplexing; IP datagrams; MAC protocols; all-optical WDM metropolitan area networks; flexible MAC protocol; reservation based protocols; transmission delay; Access protocols; Bandwidth; Delay; Media Access Protocol; Metropolitan area networks; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Optical tuning; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference, 2000. IPCCC '00. Conference Proceeding of the IEEE International

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5979-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCCC.2000.830364

Filename

830364