Aiming at the urgency of multi-sensor and high bandwidth data transfer in avionic system
the scheme of constructing optical network based on IEEE-1394b protocol was proposed.The structure of IEEE-1394b was analyzed and some new functions of NS2 simulation software were extended to support the simulation of IEEE-1394b network.The IEEE-1394b optical network simulation model was built up.Bandwidth utilization which is the important parameter of optical network was simulated under the condition of different node numbers and different transfer modes
which includes asynchronous mode and isochronous mode.The result that isochronous data transfer has higher bandwidth utilization than asynchronous data transfer in IEEE-1394b network was got.The bandwidth preservation mechanism of IEEE-1394b was verified and the variation of bandwidth utilization in data transfer was analyzed.The conclusion that IEEE-1394b optical network is capable of avionic system which requires high bandwidth isochronous data transfer was made.