Insensitivity in processor-sharing networks
Performance Evaluation
Evaluating the number of active flows in a scheduler realizing fair statistical bandwidth sharing
SIGMETRICS '05 Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
A queueing analysis of max-min fairness, proportional fairness and balanced fairness
Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications
Design and performance of randomized schedules for time-domain wavelength interleaved networks
Bell Labs Technical Journal - Core and Wireless Networks
Scheduling bursts in time-domain wavelength interleaved networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
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The paper introduces an original MAC protocol for a passive optical metropolitan area network using time-domain wavelength interleaved networking (TWIN). Optical channels are shared under the distributed control of destinations using a packet-based polling algorithm. This MAC is inspired more by EPON dynamic bandwidth allocation than the slotted, GPON-like access control generally envisaged for TWIN. Management of source-destination traffic streams is flow-aware with the size of allocated time slices being proportional to the number of active flows. This emulates a network-wide, distributed fair queuing scheduler, bringing the well-known implicit service differentiation and robustness advantages of this mechanism to the metro area network. The paper presents a comprehensive performance evaluation based on analytical modelling supported by simulations. The proposed MAC is shown to have excellent performance in terms of both traffic capacity and packet latency.