Photonic bus metropolitan area networks

Protocol design and receiver allocation for photonic bus networks (PBNets) are considered. The basic building block for PBNets consists of a linear multihop network interconnected in a bidirectional bus virtual-topology using point-to-point optical channels. Although the system may be implemented using any optical broadcast device, PBNets are designed to exploit transmissive optical star technology. A new media access protocol referred to as …