CSMA/CA MAC protocols for IP-HORNET: an IP over WDM metropolitan area ring network

Author

Shrikhande, K. ; Srivatsa, A. ; White, I.M. ; Rogge, M.S. ; Wonglumsom, D. ; Gemelos, S.M. ; Kazovksy, L.G.

Author_Institution

Opt. Commun. Res. Lab., Stanford Univ., CA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

1303

Abstract

As data traffic increases exponentially, IP over WDM transport will replace conventional SONET transport in metropolitan area networks. Such networks will require new media access control (MAC) protocols to efficiently share network bandwidth among multiple network nodes. This paper describes and evaluates novel and practical carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) MAC protocols for IP over WDM ring networks that handle variable size IP packets without complex variable optical delays or centralized algorithms. Simulation results show that the proposed IP-MAC protocols are efficient and comparable to our selected benchmark and will be implemented in the IP-HORNET testbed

Keywords

Internet; access protocols; carrier sense multiple access; metropolitan area networks; optical fibre networks; packet switching; wavelength division multiplexing; CSMA/CA MAC protocols; IP packets; IP-HORNET; IP-MAC protocols; WDM metropolitan area ring network; carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance; media access control protocols; metropolitan area networks; network bandwidth; network nodes; Access protocols; Bandwidth; Collision avoidance; Communication system traffic control; Media Access Protocol; Metropolitan area networks; Multiaccess communication; SONET; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 2000. GLOBECOM '00. IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6451-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2000.891346

Filename

891346