An atmospheric optical ring network

Author

Binder, Bradley T. ; Yu, Peter T. ; Shapiro, Jeffrey H. ; Bounds, Jeffrey K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

Volume

38

Issue

1

fYear

1990

fDate

1/1/1990 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

74

Lastpage

81

Abstract

An experimental 10-Mb/s token-ring local area network (LAN) that uses atmospheric optical communication links is described. Objective and subjective performance results are reported for operation over a 170-m-long outdoor path. The data support the following hypotheses. Atmospheric optical communications may find LAN applications as bridges between buildings containing cable subnetworks or as temporary quick connects for new outlying hosts for which cable runs are initially unavailable. LAN protocols for networks incorporating atmospheric optical communications should be modified to best insulate users from the occasional error bursts and bad-weather outages suffered by such links

Keywords

optical links; token networks; 10 Mbit/s; 170 m; LAN protocols; atmospheric optical ring network; cable subnetworks; optical communications; token-ring local area network; Atmospheric waves; Communication cables; Frequency; Local area networks; Millimeter wave technology; Optical fiber LAN; Optical fiber cables; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber networks; Optical packet switching;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0090-6778

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/26.46531

Filename

46531