Campus Units
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Conference
2010 17th IEEE Workshop on Local & Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN)
Publication Version
Accepted Manuscript
Link to Published Version
https://doi.org/10.1109/LANMAN.2010.5507148
Publication Date
2010
Journal or Book Title
2010 17th IEEE Workshop on Local & Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN)
DOI
10.1109/LANMAN.2010.5507148
Conference Title
2010 17th IEEE Workshop on Local & Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN)
Conference Date
May 5-7, 2010
City
Long Branch, NJ
Abstract
Light-trails based solutions have been proposed and demonstrated as a means of traffic grooming and optical multicasting in a LAN/MAN, where multiple nodes use time division multiple access on a unidirectional optical bus. When compared to light paths or having nodes relaying traffic using optical-electronic-optical conversion there are advantages and disadvantages to light-trails in terms of bandwidth, hardware requirements and latency. Given that a light-trail of a specific length has been identified, we develop an approach to increase its capacity utilization. In particular, we show that splitting a longer light-trail in shorter segments results into more effective and efficient utilization of bandwidth. However, we do not believe that splitting a light-trail into segments of lengths one is preferable as it will increase the overall delay.
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Copyright Owner
IEEE
Copyright Date
2010
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Somani, Arun K. and Lastine, David, "Determining optimal light-trail length" (2010). Electrical and Computer Engineering Conference Papers, Posters and Presentations. 129.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/ece_conf/129
Comments
This is a manuscript of a proceeding published as Somani, Arun K., and David Lastine. "Determining optimal light-trail length." In 2010 17th IEEE Workshop on Local & Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN) (2010). DOI: 10.1109/LANMAN.2010.5507148. Posted with permission.