A class of centralized high-performance protocols for single-hop lightwave networks

摘要

A new class of protocols for WDM star networks is introduced.According to the proposed protocols, two or more stations share eachwavelength and transmit their packets in a random access fashion. Anarray of tunable electro-optic filters or tunable wavelengthconverters, placed at the network hub, allows at most one packet perwavelength to pass to the star coupler, at each time slot.