For generations, communication networks are built by using electronic devices and components. The transmission speed (or bandwidth) is limited up to about 1 Gb/s mainly due to the capacity of the transmission lines (e.g. copper wires and coaxial cables). The introduction of fiber optics brings us to a new age. The speed of a single optical fiber line is approximately 30 terabit per second which creates a virtually unlimited transmission media for communications. Therefore, the full utilization of such high speed transmission becomes a new and exciting challenge. Many problems and challenges exist in current optical networks. They come mainly from the bottleneck effect in electronic components. This dissertation addresses two related issues. First, the problem of flow control is presented and solved in a high speed internetworking environment. Then a new optical switch is introduced along with an efficient channel access control.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UMASS/oai:scholarworks.umass.edu:dissertations-8959 |
| Date | 01 January 1994 |
| Creators | Wong, Eric Wing Ming |
| Publisher | ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst |
| Source Sets | University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Source | Doctoral Dissertations Available from Proquest |
Page generated in 0.002 seconds