A new media access control protocol for single hop WDM networks

Author

Koyama, Akio ; Barolli, Leonard ; Apduhan, Bernady O. ; Miho, Rozeta

Author_Institution

Dept. of Informatics, Yamagata Univ., Japan

fYear

2004

fDate

23-24 March 2004

Firstpage

24

Lastpage

29

Abstract

In conventional protocols, when control packets collide with others or the packets didn´t get a data channel from the channel reservation mechanism, these packets should be retransmitted. But, when transmission distance is long, it takes a long time to transmit the control packets and the propagation delay time will be long. We propose a new media access protocol for single hop wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) networks with a passive star topology. The proposed protocol can allocate data channels without retransmitting control packets except those that have collided. The simulation results show that the proposed protocol can provide high data channel usage rate and a low number of collided control packets even if the transmission distance is long. Furthermore, the proposed protocol performs well compared with conventional protocols.

Keywords

Internet; access protocols; channel allocation; optical fibre networks; wavelength division multiplexing; channel reservation mechanism; control packet retransmission; media access control protocol; propagation delay time; single hop WDM networks; star topology; Access protocols; Informatics; Media Access Protocol; Multimedia systems; Optical fiber networks; Optical transmitters; Telecommunication traffic; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems Workshops, 2004. Proceedings. 24th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2087-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDCSW.2004.1284004

Filename

1284004