Performance and protocol improvements for very high speed optical fiber local area networks using a passive star topology

Author

Mehravari, Nader

Author_Institution

AT&T Bell Lab., Holmdel, NJ

Volume

8

Issue

4

fYear

1990

fDate

4/1/1990 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

520

Lastpage

530

Abstract

Two random-access schemes for a multiuser very-high-speed optical data network based on a star topology are presented and analyzed. The protocols presented do not require any type of carrier sensing, and their performance is independent of a, the normalized propagation time of packets over the optical medium. This property is rather important when dealing with very-high-speed networks which result in high values of a, because the performance of the conventional carrier sensing schemes is poor under such conditions. The protocols outperform the corresponding algorithms of I.M.I. Habbab et al. (1987) for all values of system parameters

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; local area networks; multi-access systems; optical fibres; optical links; protocols; normalized propagation time; optical data network; optical medium; optical pulse packets; passive star topology; protocol improvements; protocols; random-access schemes; very high speed optical fiber local area networks; very-high-speed networks; Access protocols; Bandwidth; Hardware; High speed optical techniques; Network topology; Optical fiber LAN; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers; Optical sensors; Performance analysis;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/50.50758

Filename

50758