Design of a medium access control protocol for a WDMA/TDMA photonic ring network

Author

Fransson, J. ; Johansson, M. ; Roughan, M. ; Andrew, L. ; Summerfield, M.A.

Author_Institution

Software Eng. Res. Centr, RMIT, Carlton, Vic., Australia

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

1998

Firstpage

307

Abstract

We present a new medium access control protocol for a photonic ring network based on a combination of wavelength- and time-division multiple access. The protocol can achieve a maximum throughput in excess of 90%, though simulations of this protocol show that it has a practical limit of around 70% throughput. By comparison, the alternative proposed protocol, slotted ALOHA, has a maximum throughput of around 36%-almost half that of our protocol

Keywords

access protocols; network topology; optical fibre networks; time division multiple access; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM; WDMA/TDMA photonic ring network; maximum throughput; medium access control protocol; simulations; slotted ALOHA; time-division multiple access; wavelength-division multiple access; Access protocols; Add-drop multiplexers; Australia; Costs; Media Access Protocol; Optical fiber networks; Passive optical networks; Throughput; Time division multiple access; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 1998. GLOBECOM 1998. The Bridge to Global Integration. IEEE

Conference_Location

Sydney,NSW

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4984-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.1998.775746

Filename

775746