A SEMI-MARKOV MODEL FOR PERFORMANCE INVESTIGATIONS OF MULTI LEVEL PRIORITY-BASED PROTOCOL FOR ALL-OPTICAL WDM NETWORKS

摘要

A multi-level priority-based piggybacked token-passing protocol suitable for use with the multichannel fibre optic network employ- ing wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) is considered for its performance studies, using the semi-Markov modelling technique. The protocol is extended to include a multi-level priority scheme To examine its suitability in the real-time environment.