A new WDM protocol: architecture and performance analysis

In this paper we study a single-hop network for a passive star topology and suggest a multichannel control architecture (MCA). The proposed WDM network with an appropriate network interface unit (NIU) at each station gives the solution to the problem of the electronic processing bottleneck that the single common shared control channel for pretransmission coordination introduces (Pountourakis 19990. The novel concept of MCA and the distribution of control information over a number of control channels, in conjunction with a suitable NIU minimize the header processing requirement at each station (Pountourakis 1996). An analytic model is developed and analyzed for performance measures for a finite population. The effect of receiver collision is analyzed and the average rejection probabilities at the destination estimated