An approximate protocol analysis with performance optimization for WDM networks

In this study, our main goal is to investigate the performance optimization conditions for WDM networks. We introduce a network architecture of passive star topology that uses a Multi-channel Control Architecture (MCA) to avoid both the data channels and the receiver collisions. Especially, we propose a synchronous access scheme that exploits the propagation delay parameter in order to assign the data channels to the stations for successful data packet transmission. Thus, we achieve effective bandwidth utilization. An approximate analysis based on Poisson statistics is developed in order to explore the performance measures optimization. Finally, extensive comparative study is given for various stations populations and number of MCA channels.