A novel unidirectional path switched ring (UPSR) based on optical orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) technologies is introduced. Two types of reservation-based and token-based multiple access control (MAC) protocols are proposed and compared.
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Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008. Conference on
Date of Conference: 24-28 Feb. 2008