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

El-Bawab, Tarek S.; Vaishnav, C.; Jayasumana, Anura P.; Temkin, H.; Sauer, J.R.; Willebrand, H.

doi:10.1109/icc.1996.541380

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“…Blocking due to signaling errors is not considered in the analysis below, as the probability of such an error is very small [7]. Similar reservation-based protocols employing a control channel have been presented in Reference [9] where the waiting stations contend during the reservation interval to get a channel.…”

Section: Token-based Mac Protocolmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The variation of laser wavelengths with time is however not considered in our model and a fixed number of channels is assumed. The protocol analysed here is one of many that can be used in wavelength tolerant LANs [9].…”

Section: Wavelength-tolerant Tracking Receivermentioning

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“…A detailed description of the Robust WDM concepts, architecture and receiver can be found in References [9,10,[15][16][17].…”

Section: Architecturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Robust WDM network is an architecture that relaxes manufacturing and operating wavelength tolerances [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] and as a result reduces the cost to levels acceptable for LAN environments. A demonstration prototype has been implemented and several protocols have been proposed for Robust WDM networks [14][15][16][17].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Performance analysis of Robust WDM fast circuit‐switched networks with token passing in control channel

Abd-Elmalak

Vaishnav

Jayasumana

2002

Int J Communication

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SUMMARYWDM networks depend on predetermined, fixed wavelength channels, requiring highly stable lasers and tunable filters. Robust WDM networks, based on dynamically selected wavelengths, relax manufacturing and operating wavelength tolerance requirements leading to low-cost implementations. A node dynamically selects a currently unused wavelength for communication, and uses it for a limited period of time for communication with a destination, thus allowing the network to tolerate wavelength variation with time. A performance model is presented for Robust WDM networks in which the right to establish WDM connections is arbitrated periodically by a control channel based on token passing. Comparison with simulation results indicates the model's ability to predict the network performance accurately.

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Section: Token-based Mac Protocolmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Wavelength-tolerant Tracking Receivermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A detailed description of the Robust WDM concepts, architecture and receiver can be found in References [9,10,[15][16][17].…”

Section: Architecturementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Performance analysis of Robust WDM fast circuit‐switched networks with token passing in control channel

Abd-Elmalak

Vaishnav

Jayasumana

2002

Int J Communication

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“…Robust WDM networks can be implemented based on several different medium access protocols [7]. This paper evaluates a reservation type, token based medium access protocol for a Robust WDM network with circuit-switched connections.…”

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Performance of a robust WDM network with token based reservations and a limited number of lasers at a station

Abd-Elmalak

Vaishnav²,

Jayasumana³

Proceedings of LCN - 21st Annual Conference on Local Computer Networks

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The perfomnce of a symmetric Robust WDM network that uses token-passing on the signaling channel and has a limited number of lasers per station is modeled and analyzed for circuit-switched connections. Robust WDM networks use a reservation interval during which all stations cease their WDM transmissions so that the station holding the token may establish a connection with its intended destination. The network performance is analyzed for different network parameters. Simulation results are used to evaluate the accuracy of the model.In recent years, wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) has emerged as the most promising solution to satisfy the increasing need for larger bandwidth [9]. WDM exploits the enormous capacity of the single mode fiber by dividing the available wavelength into smaller, more manageable, multiple wavelengths to carry out more than one transmissions at a time; thereby offering a potential aggregate throughput in Terabits per second range. It has intrigued a large number of researchers in the industry and academia resulting in prototypes such as Rainbow4 & II [lo], STARNET [4], and LIGHTNING [5].WDM architectures are based on transmitters and receivers that can be precisely tuned to predetermined, fixed wavelengths. wavelength of a laser shifts with temperature and the output power of the laser can also change even though a constant input current is applied. Wavelength and power stabilization of laser transmitters is a very critical and expensive task. For this reason the commercial exploitation of WDM systems has not made great progress. This is especially true for short-haul (SH) local area network (LAN) environment where the cost of the fiber and its installation would be considerably less in comparison to the cost of suitable transmitter sources.Robust WDM network, a network being implemented at Colorado State University and University of Colorado, is an approach that allows relaxed manufacturing and operating wavelength tolerances [ 11. Robust WDM networks can be implemented based on several different medium access protocols [7]. This paper evaluates a reservation type, token based medium access protocol for a Robust WDM network with circuit-switched connections.In [23, we modeled and analyzed a symmetric Robust WDM circuit-switched network where each station can access all the c channels of the network. In this paper, we investigate a more realistic case where each station has only a limited number of lasers (c,) and hence can access only c, channels that are randomly spread over the total network channels (c).Section 2 provides a description of Robust WDM network and the token based MAC protocol, Section 3 details the performance model, Section 4 discusses the test results and its comparison with the simulation results, and Section 5 concludes the paper.

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On the design of Robust‐WDM local area networks

El-Bawab¹,

Jayasumana

2001

Int J Communication

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SUMMARYRobust wavelength division multiplexing (Robust-WDM) is a proposal to realize cost-e!ective WDM local area networks (LANs) which can get around the expensive need for laser wavelength stabilization. The type of these networks that relies on an access protocol with aperiodic reservations and lenient-token-passing based control channel (the AR/LTP protocol) is promising. We look at the deployment of the AR/LTP analytical model in designing this type of network. The model is used to predict the e!ect of component and network parameters on the waiting time characteristics of the network. An increase in node operation times (i.e. receiver response time, transmitter select time and reservation period) would result in increasing the average waiting time of a connection request, but the waiting time is more sensitive to the physical span of the network and its size. It is also observed that increasing the inter-reservation threshold may result in little increase in waiting time up to some limit beyond which delay increases rapidly.

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

Cited by 8 publications

References 18 publications

Performance analysis of Robust WDM fast circuit‐switched networks with token passing in control channel

Performance analysis of Robust WDM fast circuit‐switched networks with token passing in control channel

Performance of a robust WDM network with token based reservations and a limited number of lasers at a station

On the design of Robust‐WDM local area networks

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