Medium access control protocols for robust wavelength division multiplexed local area networks

Author

El-Bawab, T.S. ; Vaishnav, Cliintaii ; Jayasumana, Anura P. ; Temkin, H. ; Sauer, J.R. ; Willebrand, Heiniz A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1996

fDate

23-27 Jun 1996

Firstpage

1099

Abstract

The wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) network architectures, in general, are based on transmitters and/or receivers that can be precisely, and speedily, tuned to predetermined, fixed wavelengths. These requirements are not easy to meet in practice. Robust WDM networks do not rely on fixed wavelength channels. Any node that requires a connection with another node dynamically selects a currently unused wavelength in the spectrum. Two medium access control protocols for robust WDM networks are presented and evaluated

Keywords

access protocols; optical fibre LAN; wavelength division multiplexing; local area networks; medium access control protocols; optical LAN; robust WDM networks; wavelength division multiplexing; Access protocols; Costs; Local area networks; Media Access Protocol; Optical fiber LAN; Optical fiber networks; Optical receivers; Robust control; Robustness; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1996. ICC '96, Conference Record, Converging Technologies for Tomorrow's Applications. 1996 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3250-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.1996.541380

Filename

541380