Intelligent, Integrated Fiber Optic Networks.

摘要

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, and 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.