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| Title | FDM packet multiple access network using coherent fibre optic communication |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 1990 |
| Authors | Leung, V. C. M., and F. Takawira |
| Conference Name | Communications, 1990. ICC '90, Including Supercomm Technical Sessions. SUPERCOMM/ICC '90. Conference Record., IEEE International Conference on |
| Pagination | 1648 -1652 vol.4 |
| Date Published | apr. |
| Keywords | clusters of stations, coherent detection, coherent fibre optic communication, collision detection, D configuration, design, FDM packet multiple access network, frequency agile transmitter, frequency agility, frequency division multiplexing, multi-access systems, optical links, packet switching, passive taps, window flow-control |
| Abstract | The authors present the design of a fiber-optic packet multiple-access network which employs coherent detection over FDM optical channels. The network consists of a single-mode optical fiber arranged in the D configuration and clusters of stations attached via passive taps to the transmit and receive arms. Each station cluster is assigned one dedicated FDM channel for packet reception, and each station is equipped with a frequency agile transmitter for communication with any station in any cluster. Slotted access with collision detection is employed for nearly 100% channel utilization, but favours upstream over downstream stations. A window flow-control and acknowledgment scheme is incorporated to overcome this fairness problem |
| URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICC.1990.117342 |
| DOI | 10.1109/ICC.1990.117342 |