Design considerations for photonic routers supporting application-driven bandwidth reservations at sub-wavelength granularity

Author

Simeonidou, Dimitra ; Zervas, Georgios ; Nejabati, Reza

Author_Institution

Univ. of Essex, Colchester

fYear

2006

fDate

1-5 Oct. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

This paper presents hybrid optical router architectures (both edge and core) to support user-defined bandwidth reservations for emerging and evolving applications over wavelength channels (circuit), optical bursts or even optical packets. The edge router is based on the deployment of application-aware IP packet classification and burst/packet aggregation algorithms as well as agile and intelligent optical resource allocation. The mechanism is responsible for per application switching (OCS/OBS/OPS) service selection and Differentiated Service (DiffServ) provisioning. The optical core router can support all the abovementioned switching technologies. Both are generic and able to support any type of current or future application.

Keywords

DiffServ networks; optical burst switching; photonic switching systems; telecommunication network routing; DiffServ provisioning; application-aware IP packet classification; application-driven bandwidth reservations; burst/packet aggregation algorithms; differentiated service provisioning; hybrid optical router architectures; intelligent optical resource allocation; optical bursts; optical core router; optical packets; photonic routers; subwavelength granularity; wavelength channels; Bandwidth; Biomedical optical imaging; Circuits; Engines; High speed optical techniques; Optical fiber networks; Optical network units; Optical packet switching; Quality of service; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Broadband Communications, Networks and Systems, 2006. BROADNETS 2006. 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0425-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0425-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BROADNETS.2006.4374333

Filename

4374333