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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 1996
Filed:
Jun. 08, 1994
Makoto Nishio, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
An optical wavelength selection control system in an optical network includes an optical center node device and a plurality of terminal devices each comprised of a work station and an interface. The optical center node device includes a control circuit, a plurality of optical switches and a plurality of tunable wavelength filters. When there occurs a collision among the plurality of terminal devices wherein a plurality of terminal devices send simultaneously optical packets to the same terminal device, the control circuit operates to control the optical switches and the tunable wavelength filters such that they select only one optical packet, based on information relating to, for example, a data length to be transferred. The control circuit sends out an acknowledgment (ACK) signal to the terminal device whose optical packet has been selected. To each of the terminal devices whose optical packets have not been selected, the control circuit sends out, in addition to a not-acknowledgement (NACK) signal, a signal indicating a resending time schedule. There are no possibilities any more for at least these optical packets to be involved in the collision problems, and this ensures an enhancement of the throughput of the network system.