Performance analysis of multicast MAC protocol for multichannel dual bus networks

Abstract

The WDM-based multichannel dual bus networks (MCDBN) for high-speed LAN/MAN was proposed in the few years. When a station requests to connect to another, the transmitter of source station and the receiver of destination station must listen to a same channel (wavelength). The problem of using minimal wavelengths for a set of requests on MCDBN had been proved as NP-hard. Intuitively, the problem of providing the multicast services over MCDBN is more complicated. In this paper, we will analyze the random approach (RAND) and the Best Effort Multicasting Approach (BEMA) which was proposed for multicast packet transmissions on MCDBN. The derived analysis results are very close to the simulation results.