Modelling of multimedia MAC protocols on WDM optical networks

Author

Wang, Lixin ; Hamdi, Mounir ; Manivasakan, R. ; Tsang, Danny H K

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Kowloon, China

Volume

3

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

716

Abstract

Conventional medium access control (MAC) protocols perform quite well for the traffic types they have been designed for, but poorly for other traffic streams with different characteristics. But, the emerging multimedia applications require that the MAC protocol should perform equally well for all types of traffic characteristics. We propose an integrated MAC protocol (termed the multimedia medium access control protocol (multimedia-MAC)) which integrates different MAC protocols into a hybrid protocol to efficiently accommodate various types of multimedia traffic streams with different characteristics and QoS demands. We have applied our multimedia-MAC design approach to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) based optical network. We have developed a mathematical framework for the analysis and performance evaluation of our multimedia-MAC protocol which involves a queueing model with vacation

Keywords

access protocols; multimedia communication; optical fibre networks; quality of service; queueing theory; telecommunication traffic; wavelength division multiplexing; LAN; M-WDMA protocol; MAN; QoS demands; WDM optical networks; hybrid protocol; medium access control protocols; multimedia MAC protocols; multimedia applications; multimedia medium access control protocol; multimedia traffic streams; multimedia-MAC; performance evaluation; queueing model; traffic characteristics; traffic streams; vacation; wavelength division multiplexing; Access protocols; Communication system traffic control; Media Access Protocol; Optical design; Optical fiber networks; Performance analysis; Streaming media; Traffic control; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2001. ICC 2001. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Helsinki

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7097-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2001.937333

Filename

937333