Title
An efficient message scheduling algorithm for WDM lightwave networks
Abstract
Two important issues that need to be addressed when designing medium access control (MAC) protocols for Wavelength Division Multiplexing networks are message sequencing and channel assignment. Channel assignment addresses the problem of choosing an appropriate data channel via which a message is transmitted. This problem has been addressed extensively in the literature. On the other hand, message sequencing, which addresses the order in which messages are sent, has rarely been addressed. In this paper, we propose a new reservation-based message scheduling algorithm called RO-EATS that addresses both the channel assignment and message sequencing during its scheduling process. We formulate an analytical model and conduct extensive simulations to evaluate the performance of this algorithm. We compare the performance results of a well-known algorithm which only addresses the channel assignment issue with those of our new algorithm. The comparison shows that our new algorithm gives significant improvement over scheduling algorithms that do not consider message sequencing. As a result, we anticipate that these research results will lead to new approaches to message scheduling on WDM networks.
Year
DOI
Venue
1999
10.1016/S1389-1286(99)00085-7
Computer Networks
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Optical network,Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM),Medium access control protocol,Scheduling algorithm
Journal
31
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
20
Computer Networks
7
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.60
6
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Maode Ma11255163.24
Hamidzadeh Babak218424.99
Mounir Hamdi384794.24