Title :
A fiber optic local area network based on soliton-dragging gates
Author :
Irakliotis, L.J. ; Mitkas, P.A. ; Maniatis, D.P. ; Jayasumana, A.P.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO, USA
Abstract :
As fiber optics become the dominant physical medium for high-performance communication networks, several protocols have been suggested to exploit the advantages offered by this transmission medium. The Register Insertion Bus (RIB) access scheme has been demonstrated as a folded-bus topology network, similar to C-Net and D-Net. By exploiting the buffer scheme found in the Register Insertion Ring, RIB manages to reduce overhead which is present in a train-type protocol. In this paper we present an all-optical implementation for a RIB interface using control logic implemented by soliton-dragging gates
Keywords :
access protocols; optical fibre LAN; optical logic; optical solitons; system buses; RIB interface; Register Insertion Bus; Register Insertion Ring; buffer; communication networks; fiber optic local area network; folded-bus topology network; protocols; soliton-dragging gates; Access protocols; Delay; Hardware; Monitoring; Network topology; Optical buffering; Optical fiber LAN; Optical fibers; Spine; Telecommunication traffic;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1993. LEOS '93 Conference Proceedings. IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1263-5
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.1993.379223
