Title :
Design and analysis of a hybrid access control to an optical star using WDM
Author :
Ofek, Yoram ; Sidi, Moshe
Author_Institution :
IBM Thomas, J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
Abstract :
The implementation of a local area network based on a passive optical star is considered. Two distributed synchronization problems are addressed: (1) generating a global event clock for synchronizing the nodes´ operation, and (2) distributed scheduling for accessing the shared passive medium, which is a hybrid (deterministic and random) technique. A hybrid scheduling algorithm is presented that is fair and equivalent to a distributed queue
Keywords :
frequency division multiplexing; local area networks; optical links; queueing theory; scheduling; synchronisation; LAN; WDM; distributed queue; distributed scheduling; distributed synchronization problems; global event clock; hybrid access control; hybrid scheduling algorithm; local area network; passive optical star; wavelength division multiplexing; Access control; Algorithm design and analysis; Clocks; Delay; High speed optical techniques; Multiaccess communication; Optical control; Optical design; Synchronization; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
INFOCOM '91. Proceedings. Tenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Networking in the 90s., IEEE
Conference_Location :
Bal Harbour, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-87942-694-2
DOI :
10.1109/INFCOM.1991.147479
