A packet-switched WDM passive optical star based metropolitan area network

Author

Ganz, Aura ; Li, Bo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Massachusetts Univ., Amherst, MA, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

1993

Firstpage

57

Abstract

A cost-efficient metropolitan area network (MAN) based on a two-level structure is introduced. The physical topology of each level is a wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) passive star. The system design incorporates both the restrictions imposed by the unique features of the metropolitan environment, such as a relatively large number of nodes and large propagation delays, and the hardware limitations dictated by the WDM technology, such as a limited number of transceivers per node and the unavailability of wide-range rapidly tunable transceivers. A multicontrol channel-based protocol that is particularly suitable for packet switched communications is proposed. An analytical model is presented, and the system performance in terms of throughput and average delay is obtained

Keywords

metropolitan area networks; optical links; packet switching; performance evaluation; protocols; wavelength division multiplexing; MAN; average delay; multicontrol channel-based protocol; packet-switched WDM passive optical star based metropolitan area network; performance; throughput; two-level structure; wavelength-division-multiplexing; Hardware; Metropolitan area networks; Network topology; Optical packet switching; Packet switching; Propagation delay; Protocols; Transceivers; Urban areas; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

INFOCOM '93. Proceedings.Twelfth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Networking: Foundation for the Future, IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-3580-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INFCOM.1993.253249

Filename

253249