Protocol for an optical WDM LAN

Author

Callahan, Dale ; Grimes, Gary ; Vaughn, Gregg

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Alabama Univ., Birmingham, AL, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

55

Lastpage

61

Abstract

The Intelligent Hub Protocol (IHP) is introduced for use in packet switched optical LANs using a star topology. The essential element in this network is an intelligent hub, which controls the traffic flow and which provides controls for adding and removing new stations from the network. The hub provides for a network that is scalable, easy to administer and manage, and reduces the complexity of the network interface devices that will be needed at each station. The network makes use of wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) as well as slotting to fully exploit the fiber´s bandwidth

Keywords

network topology; optical fibre LAN; packet switching; protocols; telecommunication control; telecommunication traffic; wavelength division multiplexing; IHP; Intelligent Hub Protocol; bandwidth; complexity; network interface devices; optical WDM LAN; packet switched optical LAN; slotting; star topology; traffic flow; wavelength division multiplexing; Bandwidth; Communication system traffic control; Intelligent networks; Local area networks; Network interfaces; Network topology; Optical fiber devices; Optical packet switching; Protocols; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

SoutheastCon 2001. Proceedings. IEEE

Conference_Location

Clemson, SC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6748-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SECON.2001.923087

Filename

923087