Multimedia Data Transmission
Investigating multimedia traffic over optical networks that provide extremely high data rates makes it a very attractive medium for multiservice transmission in building networks at low cost. Recently, there has been active research going on congestion control in optical networks to provide the communication reliability and bandwidth efficiency. The authors investigate the mutual diversity technique as a candidate solution for congestion control over multimedia traffic in optical network. This chapter proposes a new robust medium access control (MAC) protocol, called mutual diversity MAC (MD-MAC), where each terminal proactively selects a consort for mutual operation and lets it pass on concurrently so that this mitigates interference from nearby terminals and thus improves the reliability of network and its bandwidth efficiency. For meticulous evaluation, this study presents and uses a realistic reception by taking bit error rate (BER) and the corresponding frame error rate (FER) into consideration.