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Publication
GLOBECOM 1992
Conference paper
Architecture and protocol of a passive optical packet-switched metropolitan/wide area network using WDMA
Abstract
The feasibility and architectures of applying wavelength division multiple access techniques to establish a passive optical packet-switched metropolitan/wide area networks are investigated in this paper. A passive optical network architecture that contains no switching and buffering elements inside the network and can support multi-gigabit data rates per channel is proposed in this paper. In addition, a simple media access protocol based on using both tunable transmitter and tunable receiver is proposed and analyzed in this paper. Performance study shows that the maximum average throughput of each transmitter or receiver approaches 50% with small header packet size (as compared to the data packet).