A fiber optic local area network based on soliton-dragging gates

Author

Irakliotis, L.J. ; Mitkas, P.A. ; Maniatis, D.P. ; Jayasumana, A.P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

15-18 Nov 1993

Firstpage

392

Lastpage

393

Abstract

As fiber optics become the dominant physical medium for high-performance communication networks, several protocols have been suggested to exploit the advantages offered by this transmission medium. The Register Insertion Bus (RIB) access scheme has been demonstrated as a folded-bus topology network, similar to C-Net and D-Net. By exploiting the buffer scheme found in the Register Insertion Ring, RIB manages to reduce overhead which is present in a train-type protocol. In this paper we present an all-optical implementation for a RIB interface using control logic implemented by soliton-dragging gates

Keywords

access protocols; optical fibre LAN; optical logic; optical solitons; system buses; RIB interface; Register Insertion Bus; Register Insertion Ring; buffer; communication networks; fiber optic local area network; folded-bus topology network; protocols; soliton-dragging gates; Access protocols; Delay; Hardware; Monitoring; Network topology; Optical buffering; Optical fiber LAN; Optical fibers; Spine; Telecommunication traffic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1993. LEOS '93 Conference Proceedings. IEEE

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1263-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1993.379223

Filename

379223