A lightweight media access protocol for a WDM-based distributed shared memory system

Authors:
Krishna M. Sivalingam;Patrick W. Dowd
Affiliations:
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Venue:
INFOCOM'96 Proceedings of the Fifteenth annual joint conference of the IEEE computer and communications societies conference on The conference on computer communications - Volume 3
Year:
1996

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Abstract

This paper presents a media access protocol designed for LIGHTNING, a WDM testbed currently under construction which has been designed for high-performance supercomputer interconnection. The architecture is based on a dynamically reconfigurable hierarchical WDM network that is being constructed to interconnect a large number of supercomputers and create a distributed shared memory (DSM) environment. This paper describes the network media access protocol based on a single tunable transmitter and single tunable receiver (TT-TR) per node. The protocol exploits the bimodal traffic characteristics of a DSM system. The primary objectives of the protocol design are reduced average latency per packet, support of broadcast/multicast, and support of collisionless communication. The proposed approach is compared to an earlier protocol based on one tunable transmitter and one fixed receiver (TT-FR) per node. The performance of the protocol in terms of average latency and channel utilization is analyzed for varying system characteristics such as number of nodes and channels.