Methods and Components for Optical Contention Resolution in High Speed Networks.

Abstract

To support the emerging need for extremely high speed interconnections in equipment backplanes (supercomputer interconnects), metropolitan area networks (MANs), and broadband local area networks (LAN), optical network technology with a high degree of concurrence may be necessary. In such environments, resources (transmitters, receivers, switches, and channels) need to be shared among multiple users. The main problem in an optical resource sharing system is controlling the access to the shared transmission, reception, or routing/switching resources. Without an efficient control, the bursty nature of data traffic in these networks can lead to severe 'resource contention' even when the total utilization of each resource is well below its capacity. One way to deal with this issue is to deploy WDM technology in optical network architectures and use the added wavelength dimension to provide packet routing, switching or other functions in a collision free manner. The section below describes the details of the technique demonstrated in this project.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA308950

Entities

People

  • P. Melman

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Broadband
  • Collisions
  • Computer Communications
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Environment
  • Local Area Networks
  • Network Architecture
  • Networks
  • Supercomputers
  • Switches
  • Switching
  • Transmitters

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Integrated Circuit Design and Technology.