Time and wavelength division multiaccess with acoustooptic tunable filters

1 January 1993

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Fiber and Integrated Optics

Vol. 12 (2) , 113-132
https://doi.org/10.1080/01468039308204218

Abstract

In this article we propose a novel time and wavelength division multiple access (T/WDMA) scheme for a metropolitan area network based on a passive optical star. This scheme supports circuit-switched traffic in an environment with a large number of users with applications that span a broad range of data rates (from voice to full motion video). The scheme can be implemented using acoustooptic tunable filters characterized by a relatively large tuning range (around 100 wavelengths) and a relatively low tuning speed (around 10 μs). Performance of this scheme is studied by simulation for the uniform, single-rate, point-to-point traffic case. We also show how the multiwavelength filtering capability of acoustooptic tunable filters can be used to improve the performance of the proposed T/WDMA scheme.

Keywords

This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:

An efficient communication protocol for high-speed packet-switched multichannel networks
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 1992
WDM-based local lightwave networks. I. Single-hop systems
IEEE Network, 1992
A wavelength division multiple access network for computer communication
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 1990
Dense wavelength division multiplexing networks: principles and applications
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 1990
Acoustooptic tunable filters in narrowband WDM networks: system issues and network applications
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 1990
The LAMBDANET multiwavelength network: architecture, applications, and demonstrations
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 1990
Broadband ISDN and asynchronous transfer mode (ATM)
IEEE Communications Magazine, 1989
Simultaneous five-wavelength filtering at 2.2 nm wavelength separation using integrated-optic acousto-optic tunable filter with subcarrier detection
Electronics Letters, 1989
SONET: now it's the standard optical network
IEEE Communications Magazine, 1989
Channel allocation protocols in frequency-time controlled high speed networks
IEEE Transactions on Communications, 1988