Collisionless media access protocols for high-speed communication in optically interconnected parallel computers

This paper introduces a collisionless wavelength division multiple access protocol for a passive star-coupled parallel computer. A performance analysis is developed based on a semi-Markov model. This model, verified by extensive simulation, is then used to study the behavior of the protocol with varying system characteristics.

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