Intelligent, Integrated Fiber Optic Networks

Abstract

The main focus of this project was on high-speed fiber-optic local and metropolitan area networks (LANs/MANs) which cover larger distances than traditional LANs, are implemented in fiber, and operated at high data rates (100 Mbps - 1 Gbps range). Considerable progress has been made on the investigation of new medium access control techniques which can not only provide good delay and throughput characteristics, but also provide fairness, support scalability, adn accommodate integrated services. Research on the next generation of local networks (referred to as local lightwave networks) was also initiated, with the goal being to exploit the huge electro-optic bandwidth mismatch by employing innovative parallelism and concurrency mechanisms, viz. wavelength division multiplexing (WDM). Progress has been made on the development of new architectures and protocols suitable for lightwave technology.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 29, 1992
Accession Number
ADA260282

Entities

People

  • Biswanath Mukherjee

Organizations

  • University of California, Davis

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bus Networks
  • Communication Systems
  • Computer Communications
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Science
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Digital Communications
  • Electronic Mail
  • Local Area Networks
  • Multiple Access
  • Multiplexing
  • Network Architecture
  • Network Protocols
  • Network Science
  • Throughput
  • Wavelength Division Multiplexing

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Optical Fiber Sensing and Electromagnetic Propagation.
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Systems Analysis and Design