A new protocol for optical high-speed packet-switched networks

Author

Guizani, Mohsein

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., King Fahd Univ. of Pet. & Miner., Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

fYear

1995

fDate

16-19 Oct 1995

Firstpage

343

Lastpage

349

Abstract

A new media access protocol for optical high-speed packet-switched networks is proposed. The protocol is based on a broadcast passive optical star coupler topology. The strength of the protocol is its simplicity. The protocol supports a network architecture consisting of tunable transmitters and tunable receivers. Each station has a data channel and a control/signalling channel. The data channel wavelength is unique to each station while several stations can share a common control channel wavelength. Both connection-oriented and datagram traffic can be supported by this protocol. No network wide synchronization is required and hence it is suitable to LAN/MAN applications in which it is extremely difficult to achieve network synchronization. Analysis of the proposed protocol is presented

Keywords

access protocols; metropolitan area networks; optical communication; optical fibre LAN; optical fibre networks; packet switching; wavelength division multiplexing; LAN applications; MAN applications; broadcast passive optical star coupler topology; connection-oriented traffic; control channel; data channel; data channel wavelength; datagram traffic; media access protocol; network architecture; optical high-speed packet-switched networks; signalling channel; station; tunable receivers; tunable transmitters; Access protocols; Broadcasting; High speed optical techniques; Media Access Protocol; Network topology; Optical coupling; Optical fiber networks; Optical packet switching; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks, 1995., Proceedings. 20th Conference on

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

ISSN

0742-1303

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7162-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.1995.527362

Filename

527362