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Design and Analysis of a Synchronous Transmission WDMA Protocol

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In this paper, we propose a synchronous WDMA protocol for a passive star topology and suggest a new architecture for the network interface of each station. The multichannel nature of WDM networks involves receiver collision phenomena at the destination. We develop an analytical model based on a finite number of tunable receivers and a finite number of stations to investigate the performance of the proposed protocol. Numerical results are showing the performance behaviour for various number of channels, stations, and tunable receivers. Also simulation results are presented for comparison with the results obtained by the performance analysis.

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Pountourakis, I.E. Design and Analysis of a Synchronous Transmission WDMA Protocol. Photonic Network Communications 2, 297–308 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010008525410

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