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Fair MAC protocol for optical ring network of wavelength-shared access nodes

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In this paper, a WDM optical ring consisting of access nodes with fixed transmitter-n fixed receivers (FT—FRn) is considered. As access nodes share a wavelength channel there is trade-off between node throughput and fairness among them. In order to abbreviate the transmission unfairness and to increase the throughput, we propose p-persistent medium access control (MAC) protocol. Each node uses the carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) protocol to transmit packets, and decides whether to use a local empty slot with probability p when a transferred packet based on source-stripping is dropped and emptied. Numerical prediction for the proposed MAC protocol is introduced to compute the maximum node throughput under uniform traffic condition. For more detail results, we use network simulation with self-similar traffic and introduce various results. The proposed MAC protocol gives better node throughput than non-persistent protocol and shows an improved fairness factor than 1-persistent protocol. Through simulation, we also find the reasonable probability of p-persistent protocol for a given architecture.

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  1. Department of Computer Education, Sunchon National University, Suncheon, Jeonnam 540-742, Korea

    Won-Ho So

  2. Department of Computer Engineering, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Jeonbuk 561-750, Korea

    Young-Chon Kim

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So, WH., Kim, YC. Fair MAC protocol for optical ring network of wavelength-shared access nodes. Photon Netw Commun 13, 289–295 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11107-006-0050-1

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