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MAC Protocol of a Next-Generation MAN Architecture Based on WDM and All-Optical Packet Switching

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As media converge to the Internet, MANs will face new demands not only in terms of bandwidth, but also in terms of services. We describe a next generation MAN architecture that has been designed within Dutch project Flamingo. Based on all-optical packet switching, this architecture supports one-to-one, one-to-many and many-to-one communications in the optical domain. Specifically, we focus on the MAC layer of the network. We describe the access and fairness protocols and explain how the all-optical nature of the architecture affects the design of these protocols. We also discuss some performance results that have been obtained via simulation.

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    Marcos Rogério Salvador, Sonia Heemstra de Groot & Diptish Dey

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Salvador, M.R., Heemstra de Groot, S. & Dey, D. MAC Protocol of a Next-Generation MAN Architecture Based on WDM and All-Optical Packet Switching. Telecommunication Systems 19, 377–401 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1013894506809

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