Title :
An accelerative pre-allocation protocol for wavelength division multiplexing star-coupled networks
Author :
Sue, Chuan-Ching ; Kuo, Sy-Yen ; Huang, Yennun
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
Abstract :
For the wavelength division multi-access system (WDMA), the reservation approach and the pre-allocation approach are two major media access protocols to support the packet-switched traffic. In this paper, a new media access control (MAC) protocol, the AP-WDMA (accelerative pre-allocation), is proposed for the WDMA. Although implemented on a simple basic architecture, it does provide a better media access protocol which can be easily extended to all the WDMA. Through evaluations, the AP-WDMA is shown to be able to overcome the wavelength limitation through a channel sharing mechanism and enable efficient transmission with the accelerative mechanism. The AP-WDMA relieves these technology constraints restricting the tunability to only one end and the table size to only n+2 memory spaces, where n is the number of stations
Keywords :
access protocols; network topology; packet switching; telecommunication traffic; wavelength division multiplexing; AP-WDMA; MAC protocol; accelerative pre-allocation protocol; channel sharing mechanism; media access control; packet-switched traffic; star-coupled networks; wavelength division multi-access system; wavelength division multiplexing; Acceleration; Access protocols; Communication system traffic control; Delay; Media Access Protocol; Space stations; Space technology; Telecommunication traffic; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Computers and Communications, 1999. Proceedings. IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Red Sea
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0250-4
DOI :
10.1109/ISCC.1999.780810