Switching latency overlap techniques for WDM star-coupled media access protocols

Author

Dowd, P.W. ; Bogineni, Kalyani K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., State Univ. of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

1993

Firstpage

65

Abstract

The impact of the wavelength-tunable device switching latency on the performance of media access protocols for star-coupled wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) photonic networks is investigated. The effects of a reservation-base protocol (TDMA-C) and two preallocation-based protocols (I-TDMA* and I-SA) are compared. TDMA-C is control-channel based, with one WDM channel allocated to reserve access for data packet transmission on the remaining data channels. I-SA and I-TDMA* are designed for a network where channels are preallocated to the nodes for reception, with each node having a home channel it uses for all data packet receptions. The performance of the protocols is evaluated through discrete-event simulation is terms of network throughput, packet delay, and data channel utilization, with variations in the number of nodes and data channels, packet generation rate, data packet length, optical device switching latencies, and propagation delay

Keywords

computer networks; optical links; packet switching; protocols; time division multiple access; wavelength division multiplexing; I-SA; I-TDMA*; TDMA-C; WDM star-coupled media access protocols; computer communications; data channel utilization; discrete-event simulation; interleaved TDMA; interleaved slotted ALOHA; network throughput; packet delay; performance; photonic networks; preallocation-based protocols; reservation-base protocol; switching latency overlap techniques; Access protocols; Delay; Media Access Protocol; Optical devices; Optical packet switching; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Throughput; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

INFOCOM '93. Proceedings.Twelfth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Networking: Foundation for the Future, IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-3580-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INFCOM.1993.253248

Filename

253248