Title :
A Metro WDM Multi-ring Network with Variable Packet Size
Author :
Chen, Bin ; Pranggono, Bernardi ; Elmirghani, Jaafar M H
Author_Institution :
Institute of Advanced Telecommunications, University of Wales Swansea, Swansea, SA2 8PP, U.K.
Abstract :
This paper proposes two metro Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) ring network architectures for variable size packet traffic. Firstly, it presents the network architectures and describes their medium access control (MAC) protocol. Secondly, it evaluates and compares the performance of the modified and original architectures, presenting results for throughput, queuing delay, packet dropping probability and global delay. Finally, it analyses and explains the results.
Keywords :
Access protocols; Communication system traffic control; Delay; Media Access Protocol; Metropolitan area networks; Streaming media; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing; Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol; Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM); metropolitan area network (MAN); super-size slot; variable size packet;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, 2006. ICC '06. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Istanbul
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0355-3
Electronic_ISBN :
8164-9547
DOI :
10.1109/ICC.2006.255210
