Acknowledgement using subcarrier multiplexed tones

摘要

Subcarrier multiplexed acknowledgment tones are used for contention recovery in multiple-access WDM networks with basedband data packets and subcarrier multiplexed control headers. Upon receiving a data message from another node, the receiving node sends a subcarrier acknowledgement tone to the transmitter thus informing the transmitting node that the message has been received. The thoughput of the network is significantly improved. In an alternative embodiment, an acknowledgement is sent from the receiver by impressing a data message on a subcarrier.