Brian J. d'Auriol, Ph.D.
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Linda Susan Draper, Free Space Optical Bus Architecture, Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at El Paso, July 2005. Advisor: Brian J. d'Auriol
This thesis proposes a reasonable architecture for a \emph{Free-space Optical Bus (FSOB)}. This architecture bridges the two worlds of fiber-based and free-space-based research. An Architectural Framework Model (AFM) is proposed as a consistent method of describing an architecture. The AFM is used in the development of the FSOB architecture. This architecture addresses the following concerns: necessary physical volume, speed increase and potential increase of bandwidth. The proposed architecture is assessed and evaluated to show that this bus architecture can be configured to exceed the requirements of fiber-based optical buses. |