Event Details

Performance of Contention Based Access Control for a Media Frame Network

Presenter: Teng Ge
Supervisor: Dr. Thomas Darcie

Date: Wed, April 11, 2012
Time: 10:00:00 - 00:00:00
Place: EOW 430

ABSTRACT

ABSTRACT

The idea of a Media Frame network (MFN) was proposed very recently for solving the explosively growing demand for end-to-end large file transfers. This networking method combines the advantage of high transmission speed from optical networks and flexibility and fast header parsing from electronic networks. The MFN is based on very large data units or media frames (MF) compared to IP packets. Due to the logical continuity, transporting data in a media frame network largely reduces the power consumption in the intermediate nodes and routers. Currently the backbone of media frame network has been studied. The remaining challenge is to devise a system solving the problem of transporting MFs through access networks (i.e., the last mile) connecting customers to the backbone networks. To our knowledge, no other research activity regarding this challenge has been reported. If this challenge is overcome and if the overall concept is accepted, the MFN could be a very important step in the evolution of the Internet.