ORMA: A high-performance MAC protocol for fiber-optic LANs/MANs

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 110-119

  Hamdi, Mounir ^a,b,c,d  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d ACM

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PACKET SWITCHING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

MEAN PACKET DELAY; OPTICAL RESERVATION MULTIPLE ACCESS; THROUGHPUT; TRANSMISSION DELAYS;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 0031097642     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/35.581315     Document Type: Article

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