Delay improvements from multiple wavelengths in an optical folded bus

In this thesis, we compared the delay of a single wavelength local area optical network and a multiple wavelength local area optical network. We used an optical folded bus as the architecture for the LAN and analyzed the system's delay for both time division multiplexing and a reservations. The multiple wavelength system is assumed to have a very limited number of wavelengths and therefore does not apply a typical wavelength division multiplexing. The analysis of the delay involves mostly queueing analysis, with extensive use of Laplace transforms and Z-transforms. The purpose of this comparison is to decide whether the improvements in delay are worth the extra costs of increasing the number of wavelengths in optical LANs.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2004

Author dc:creator

• Le Cocq, Cécile, 1980-

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Muriel Médard.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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en_US

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/28422

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