Generalized Modified Accelerative Pre-allocation WDMA MAC Protocol for WDMA Networks

For wavelength division multiple access (WDMA) networks, various media access control (MAC) protocols have been proposed. In this paper, generalized modified accelerative pre-allocation WDMA (GMAP-WDMA) is proposed, which is based on MAP-WDMA considering channel sharing at channel limited conditions. The network performance of channel utilization, throughput, and latency is analyzed under balanced traffic loads and uniform traffic distribution by employing neighboring channel sharing. As a result, the performance of GMAP-WDMA mainly depends on the number of channels at given number of stations, and their behaviors can be applied to practically design the network