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Project Summary
Future local area network’s (LAN) are expected to provide the wide variety of services, both low and high speed ones.. The low speed services could be handled by evolutionary versions of the presently available networks. The high speed ones require a new generation of local area networks. The target is therefore an integrated services boras-band optical local area network (BOLAN) that supports the whole spectrum of traffic. Previous efforts, such as WDM star solution for operating a BOLAN, although attractive from the bandwidth point of view, causes difficult implementation problem. STARNET is a broadband backbone optical wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) LAN. Based on a physical passive star topology, STARNET offers all users two logical subnetworks: a high-speed reconfigurable packet-switched data subnetwork and a moderate-speed fix-tuned packet-switched control subnetwork. Thus, STARNET supports traffic with a wide range of speed and continuity characteristics. Following is the logical topology of STARNET.
Fig. 1: Schematic of STARNET node
Multi-gigabit-per-second STAR has been demonstrated. Schematic of a node of STARNET is presented in Fig. 1 and interconnection between two nodes can be seen in Fig.2.
Fig. 2 Interconnection of two STARNET nodes
Future local area network’s (LAN) are expected to provide the wide variety of services, both low and high speed ones.. The low speed services could be handled by evolutionary versions of the presently available networks. The high speed ones require a new generation of local area networks. The target is therefore an integrated services boras-band optical local area network (BOLAN) that supports the whole spectrum of traffic. Previous efforts, such as WDM star solution for operating a BOLAN, although attractive from the bandwidth point of view, causes difficult implementation problem. STARNET is a broadband backbone optical wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) LAN. Based on a physical passive star topology, STARNET offers all users two logical subnetworks: a high-speed reconfigurable packet-switched data subnetwork and a moderate-speed fix-tuned packet-switched control subnetwork. Thus, STARNET supports traffic with a wide range of speed and continuity characteristics. Following is the logical topology of STARNET.
Fig. 1: Schematic of STARNET node
Multi-gigabit-per-second STAR has been demonstrated. Schematic of a node of STARNET is presented in Fig. 1 and interconnection between two nodes can be seen in Fig.2.
Fig. 2 Interconnection of two STARNET nodes
Sponsors
Researchers
PI: Professor Leonid Kazovsky
Students: Sanjay Agrawal Charles Barry, Michael Hickey,
PI: Professor Leonid Kazovsky
Students: Sanjay Agrawal Charles Barry, Michael Hickey,
Publications and Presentations
Conferences:
1. Agrawal, S. K., T. K. Chiang, D. Mayweather, C. F. Barry, and L. G. Kazovsky. "Toward Multimedia Applications on the STARNET WDM
Network." Digest of the LEOS Summer Topical Meetings. Flat Panel Display Technology/Technologies for a Global Information
Infrastructure/ICs for New Age Lightwave Communications/RF Optoelectronics, 1995. 1995.
2. Kazovsky, L. "Wavelength division multiplexing in local area networks." "Technologies for the Information Superhighway", Digest of Papers.
Compcon '95. 1995.
3. Hickey, M., F. J. Westphal, J. Fan, G. Jacobsen, and L. Kazovsky. "Combined ASK/FSK Modulation For The STARNET WDM Computer
Network." IEE/LEOS Summer Topical Meetings:. Integrated Optoelectronics. 1994.
4. Barry, C., M. Hickey, C. Noronha, P. Poggiolini, and L. Kazovsky. "An experimental multi-Gb/s WDM broadband network." IEEE International
Conference on Communications, Geneva. 1993.
5. Hickey, M., C. Barry, C. Noronha, and L. Kazovsky. "The STARNET Coherent Optical WDM Network:, Modulation Format And Computer-to-
optics Interface." Optical Microwave Interactions/Visible Semiconductor Lasers/Impact of Fiber Nonlinearities on Lightwave Systems/Hybrid
Optoelectronic Integration and Packaging/Gigabit Networks. 1993.
6. Kazovsky, L. G., C. F. Barry, M. J. Hickey, C. A. Noronha, and P. T. Poggiolini. "A multi-Gbit/s optical LAN utilizing a passive WDM star: towards an
experimental prototype." INFOCOM '93. 1993.
Journals:
1. Sadot, D., and L. G. Kazovsky. "Power budget optimization of STARNET II: an optically amplified direct-detection WDM network with subcarrier
control." Journal of Lightwave Technology 15.9 (1997): 1629-635.
2. Chiang, Ting-Kuang, S. K. Agrawal, D. T. Mayweather, D. Sadot, C. F. Barry, M. Hickey, and L. G. Kazovsky. "Implementation of STARNET: a
WDM computer communications network." IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 14.5 (1996): 824-39.
3. Hickey, M., and L. Kazovsky. "Combined frequency and amplitude modulation for the STARNET WDM computer communication network." IEEE
Photonics Technology Letters 6.12 (1994): 1473-475.
4. Hickey, M., and L. Kazovsky. "The STARNET coherent WDM computer communication network: experimental transceiver employing a novel
modulation format." Journal of Lightwave Technology 12.5 (1994): 876-84.
5. Hickey, M., C. Barry, C. Noronha, and L. Kazovsky. "Experimental PSK/ASK transceiver for the STARNET WDM computer communication
network." IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 5.5 (1993): 568-71.
6. Kazovsky, L. G., and P. T. Poggiolini. "STARNET: a multi-gigabit-per-second optical LAN utilizing a passive WDM star." Journal of Lightwave
Technology 11.5 (1993): 1009-027.
7. Kazovsky, L. G., C. Barry, M. Hickey, C. A. Noronha Jr., and P. Poggiolini. "WDM local area networks." IEEE LTS 3.2 (1992): 8-15.
Conferences:
1. Agrawal, S. K., T. K. Chiang, D. Mayweather, C. F. Barry, and L. G. Kazovsky. "Toward Multimedia Applications on the STARNET WDM
Network." Digest of the LEOS Summer Topical Meetings. Flat Panel Display Technology/Technologies for a Global Information
Infrastructure/ICs for New Age Lightwave Communications/RF Optoelectronics, 1995. 1995.
2. Kazovsky, L. "Wavelength division multiplexing in local area networks." "Technologies for the Information Superhighway", Digest of Papers.
Compcon '95. 1995.
3. Hickey, M., F. J. Westphal, J. Fan, G. Jacobsen, and L. Kazovsky. "Combined ASK/FSK Modulation For The STARNET WDM Computer
Network." IEE/LEOS Summer Topical Meetings:. Integrated Optoelectronics. 1994.
4. Barry, C., M. Hickey, C. Noronha, P. Poggiolini, and L. Kazovsky. "An experimental multi-Gb/s WDM broadband network." IEEE International
Conference on Communications, Geneva. 1993.
5. Hickey, M., C. Barry, C. Noronha, and L. Kazovsky. "The STARNET Coherent Optical WDM Network:, Modulation Format And Computer-to-
optics Interface." Optical Microwave Interactions/Visible Semiconductor Lasers/Impact of Fiber Nonlinearities on Lightwave Systems/Hybrid
Optoelectronic Integration and Packaging/Gigabit Networks. 1993.
6. Kazovsky, L. G., C. F. Barry, M. J. Hickey, C. A. Noronha, and P. T. Poggiolini. "A multi-Gbit/s optical LAN utilizing a passive WDM star: towards an
experimental prototype." INFOCOM '93. 1993.
Journals:
1. Sadot, D., and L. G. Kazovsky. "Power budget optimization of STARNET II: an optically amplified direct-detection WDM network with subcarrier
control." Journal of Lightwave Technology 15.9 (1997): 1629-635.
2. Chiang, Ting-Kuang, S. K. Agrawal, D. T. Mayweather, D. Sadot, C. F. Barry, M. Hickey, and L. G. Kazovsky. "Implementation of STARNET: a
WDM computer communications network." IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 14.5 (1996): 824-39.
3. Hickey, M., and L. Kazovsky. "Combined frequency and amplitude modulation for the STARNET WDM computer communication network." IEEE
Photonics Technology Letters 6.12 (1994): 1473-475.
4. Hickey, M., and L. Kazovsky. "The STARNET coherent WDM computer communication network: experimental transceiver employing a novel
modulation format." Journal of Lightwave Technology 12.5 (1994): 876-84.
5. Hickey, M., C. Barry, C. Noronha, and L. Kazovsky. "Experimental PSK/ASK transceiver for the STARNET WDM computer communication
network." IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 5.5 (1993): 568-71.
6. Kazovsky, L. G., and P. T. Poggiolini. "STARNET: a multi-gigabit-per-second optical LAN utilizing a passive WDM star." Journal of Lightwave
Technology 11.5 (1993): 1009-027.
7. Kazovsky, L. G., C. Barry, M. Hickey, C. A. Noronha Jr., and P. Poggiolini. "WDM local area networks." IEEE LTS 3.2 (1992): 8-15.