All-optical WDM packet networks

Author

Monacos, Steve P. ; Morookian, John M. ; Davis, Larry ; Bergman, Larry A. ; Forouhar, Siamk ; Sauer, Jon R.

Author_Institution

Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA

Volume

14

Issue

6

fYear

1996

fDate

6/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1356

Lastpage

1370

Abstract

This paper describes the components and subsystems for the implementation of a multi-GHz optoelectronic data transport network using self-routing packets in a multi-hop network. The short packet payloads are compressed using optical wavelength division multiplexing techniques, and remain optical from source to destination while traversing the switching nodes. The routing is done with a lean, self-routing hot potato protocol in order to avoid the need for data storage at the switching nodes and to provide a fixed node latency equivalent to a few meters of fiber. Sustainable throughput both into and out of the electronic host at each node should exceed 10 Gb/s. Some technical details of the switching nodes and interfaces of the recirculating shuffle network, and the stepped wavelength laser arrays and testbed will be given

Keywords

hypercube networks; optical fibre networks; packet switching; telecommunication network routing; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; all-optical WDM packet networks; data storage; fixed node latency; multi-GHz optoelectronic data transport network; multi-hop network; optical wavelength division multiplexing techniques; recirculating shuffle network; self-routing hot potato protocol; self-routing packets; short packet payload compression; stepped wavelength laser arrays; switching nodes; Delay; Memory; Optical fiber testing; Optical packet switching; Payloads; Routing protocols; Spread spectrum communication; Throughput; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/50.511667

Filename

511667