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Design and protocol analysis for passive star topology of a WDM network
Author(s) -
Pountourakis Ioannis E.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
microwave and optical technology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.304
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1098-2760
pISSN - 0895-2477
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1098-2760(20000505)25:3<216::aid-mop16>3.0.co;2-5
Subject(s) - star network , bottleneck , network packet , wavelength division multiplexing , computer network , control channel , computer science , multiplexing , topology (electrical circuits) , microwave , network topology , engineering , wavelength , telecommunications , electrical engineering , base station , ring network , optics , physics , embedded system
In this letter, we study a single‐hop network for a passive star topology, where each station communicates with the other by assigning a fixed wavelength to each station. A station transmits its packets to another station by transmitting over its dedicated wavelength. All of these dedicated wavelengths are multiplexed by WDM into a multiwavelength broadcast system. To enable the destination station to know which packets from the WDM system are destined for it, we introduce the multichannel control architecture (MCA). The MCA with an appropriate network interface unit (NIU) at each station gives the solution to the problem of the electronic processing bottleneck that the single common shared control channel for pretransmission coordination introduces. An analytic model is developed and analyzed for performance measures evaluation based on Poisson approximation statistics for finite population. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 25: 216–220, 2000