An Efficient Communication Protocol for High-Speed Packet-Switched Multichannel Networks

A media-access protocol for high-speed packet-switched multichannel networks that are based on a broadcast topology, such as optical passive star networks using wavelength-division multiple access, is described. The protocol supports connection-oriented traffic with or without bandwidth reservation, as well as datagram traffic to integrate transport-layer functions with the media-access layer. It uses the bandwidth efficiently while keeping the processing requirements low by requiring stations to compute their transmission and reception schedules only at the start and end of each connection. Analysis results show that low blocking probabilities for connections and high network throughput can be achieved. >

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