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Distributed medium-access-control protocol for an optical-packet-switched ring network supporting variable-length packets

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Abstract

We propose a distributed medium-access control (MAC) protocol for an asynchronous, optical-packet-switch architecture, suitable for an efficient, scalable, and flexible interconnected ring network. We compare the complexity of our proposal with that of existing techniques to support variable-length packets and with node architectures that enable spatial wavelength reuse. Simulations quantify the throughput increase enabled by the MAC protocol and show that moderate hardware resources are sufficient to offer low-packet-loss rates with low maximum delay and delay jitter. Finally, we show that the network efficiently supports bursty traffic.

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