Analysis of partially shared buffering for WDM optical packet switching

Author

Diao, Juan ; Chu, Pak L.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Telecommun., New South Wales Univ., Sydney, NSW, Australia

Volume

17

Issue

12

fYear

1999

fDate

12/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2461

Lastpage

2469

Abstract

A new WDM packet switch architecture, partially shared buffering, is proposed. This architecture, in addition to dedicating an individual prime buffer for each output, incorporates a separate buffer for all the outputs to share. Based on this architecture, a lower packet loss probability can be achieved without the need of either dramatically increasing the size of each prime output buffer or deploying a large number of wavelength converters. The performance of the new architecture has been extensively studied by means of numerical simulations

Keywords

optical fibre communication; optical losses; packet switching; probability; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM optical packet switching; WDM packet switch architecture; individual prime buffer; lower packet loss probability; numerical simulations; partially shared buffering; prime output buffer; wavelength converters; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical buffering; Optical packet switching; Optical sensors; Optical switches; Optical wavelength conversion; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Throughput; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/50.809664

Filename

809664