Performance evaluation of a WDM optical packet switch with multicast capability

Author

Huang, Qirui ; Zhong, Wen-De ; Chen, Wen

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2009

fDate

8-10 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper investigates a WDM optical packet switch with multicast capability which is based on a broadcast-and-select architecture. The switch enables to deliver simultaneously multiple optical packets destined for the same output fiber of the switch. The simulation results show that the presented WDM optical packet switch can achieve much better performance on packet loss probability and average delay with fewer fiber delay lines in comparison with single wavelength optical packet switches.

Keywords

multicast communication; optical fibre communication; packet switching; performance evaluation; probability; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM optical packet switch; broadcast-and-select architecture; fiber delay lines; multicast capability; multiple optical packets; output fiber; packet loss probability; performance evaluation; single wavelength optical packet switches; Broadcasting; Optical buffering; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical packet switching; Optical switches; Packet switching; Unicast; Wavelength division multiplexing; Optical packet switching (OPS); multicast; tunable filter; wavelength converter;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information, Communications and Signal Processing, 2009. ICICS 2009. 7th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Macau

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4656-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4657-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICICS.2009.5397525

Filename

5397525