Cost-effective single-hub WDM ring networks: A proposal and analysis
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Multipoint-to-point lightpaths in all-optical networks: Dimensioning and cost analysis
Performance Evaluation
A Note on the Effects of Service Time Distribution in the M/G/1 Queue
Proceedings of the 2009 SPEC Benchmark Workshop on Computer Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking
Optical MAN ring performance with traffic aggregations
Computer Communications
Optical metropolitan networks: packet format, MAC protocols and quality of service
Network performance engineering
Performance of multicast packet aggregation in all optical slotted networks
Network performance engineering
Photonic Network Communications
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Packet-based optical access ring is becoming a promising solution in metropolitan networks. Its performance depends mainly on how optical resource sharing takes place among the different competing access nodes. This network architecture has mostly been explored with regard to synchronous transmission, i.e., slotted wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) ring. However, in this paper, we focus on the performance of asynchronous transmission-based networks with variable packet sizes. Analytical models are presented in an attempt to provide explicit formulas that express the mean access delay of each node of the bus-based optical access network. We prove that in such a network, fairness problems are likely to arise between upstream and downstream nodes sharing a common data channel. Furthermore, we show that sharing the channel's available bandwidth fairly but arbitrarily between access nodes, as in slotted WDM rings, does not resolve the fairness problem in asynchronous system. In this regard, we exhibit the inherent limitations of the token bucket access rate-based algorithm once applied to asynchronous transmission bus-based networks. To alleviate the aforementioned problem, we device a new strategy called traffic control architecture using remote descriptors. The proposed solution is based on a preventive mechanism to grant access to the shared resource. As illustrated in this paper, the proposed solution alleviates the performance degradation and the resource underutilization, while achieving fairness among bus nodes.