DocumentCode
2843039
Title
A Metro WDM Multi-ring Network with Variable Packet Size
Author
Chen, Bin ; Pranggono, Bernardi ; Elmirghani, Jaafar M H
Author_Institution
Institute of Advanced Telecommunications, University of Wales Swansea, Swansea, SA2 8PP, U.K.
Volume
6
fYear
2006
fDate
38869
Firstpage
2835
Lastpage
2840
Abstract
This paper proposes two metro Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) ring network architectures for variable size packet traffic. Firstly, it presents the network architectures and describes their medium access control (MAC) protocol. Secondly, it evaluates and compares the performance of the modified and original architectures, presenting results for throughput, queuing delay, packet dropping probability and global delay. Finally, it analyses and explains the results.
Keywords
Access protocols; Communication system traffic control; Delay; Media Access Protocol; Metropolitan area networks; Streaming media; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing; Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol; Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM); metropolitan area network (MAN); super-size slot; variable size packet;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Communications, 2006. ICC '06. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
Istanbul
ISSN
8164-9547
Print_ISBN
1-4244-0355-3
Electronic_ISBN
8164-9547
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICC.2006.255210
Filename
4024606
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