DocumentCode
1558059
Title
Handling Priorities in Optical Buffers
Author
Musumeci, Francesco ; Pattavina, Achille
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electron. & Inf., Politec. di Milano, Milan, Italy
Volume
60
Issue
10
fYear
2012
fDate
10/1/2012 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
2784
Lastpage
2788
Abstract
In this letter we focus on the construction of optical buffers exploiting a static priority scheduling policy. Optical Switches and fiber Delay Lines (SDLs) are used to build the proposed multiple input/output ports Optical Priority Multiplexers and Priority Switching Nodes, used for contention-resolution in Optical Packet Switched networks.
Keywords
MIMO communication; multiplexing equipment; optical delay lines; optical switches; packet switching; scheduling; contention resolution; fiber delay line; multiple input output port; optical buffer; optical packet switched network; optical priority multiplexer; optical switch; priority switching node; static priority scheduling policy; Buffer storage; Delay lines; Multiplexing; Optical buffering; Optical packet switching; Optical switches; Optical buffers; priority multiplexers and nodes; priority queues; switched delay lines;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Communications, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0090-6778
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TCOMM.2012.071312.110133A
Filename
6242358
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