On the performance bounds of optical LANs based on WDM

Author

Li, Bo ; Qin, Yang ; Cao, Xi-Ren

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Hong Kong Univ., Hong Kong

fYear

1998

fDate

30 Jun-2 Jul 1998

Firstpage

380

Lastpage

384

Abstract

We introduce an analytical model to obtain the performance bounds for a single hop optical network based on WDM. We model the network under saturation traffic loading while ignoring the specific channel access scheme as a multi-class closed queueing network (BCMP network), for which a product-form solution for the steady-state probabilities exists. Therefore the exact solutions can be derived. In addition, we study the effect on the system performance of the number of stations in the network, the number of transmitters/receivers at each station, and the traffic distribution pattern

Keywords

optical fibre LAN; optical receivers; optical transmitters; performance evaluation; probability; queueing theory; telecommunication traffic; wavelength division multiplexing; BCMP network; WDM; analytical model; exact solutions; multi-class closed queueing network; optical LAN; performance bounds; product-form solution; saturation traffic loading; single hop optical network; steady-state probabilities; system performance; traffic distribution pattern; transmitters/receivers; Analytical models; Optical fiber networks; Optical receivers; Optical saturation; Optical transmitters; Steady-state; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers and Communications, 1998. ISCC '98. Proceedings. Third IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Athens

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8538-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCC.1998.702551

Filename

702551