Minimizing delay and packet loss in single-hop lightwave WDM networks using TDM schedules

Author

Rouskas, George N. ; Ammar, Mostafa H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1995

fDate

18-22 Jun 1995

Firstpage

1267

Abstract

Considers single-hop WDM networks with stations equipped with tunable transmitters and fixed receivers. Access to the channels is controlled by a weighted TDM scheme. The authors study the problem of designing TDM frames to minimize the mean packet delay, as well as the mean packet loss probability given a finite buffer capacity. They develop optimization heuristics which, for non-uniform communication patterns common to parallel and distributed computations, represent a significant improvement over I-TDMA

Keywords

buffer storage; computer networks; delays; minimisation; optical fibre networks; packet switching; performance evaluation; scheduling; wavelength division multiplexing; TDM schedules; buffer capacity; delay; minimization; nonuniform communication patterns; optimization heuristics; packet loss; single-hop lightwave WDM networks; weighted TDM scheme; Capacity planning; Communication system control; Concurrent computing; Delay; Distributed computing; Time division multiplexing; Transmitters; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing; Weight control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1995. ICC '95 Seattle, 'Gateway to Globalization', 1995 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2486-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.1995.524302

Filename

524302