Controlling high speed slotted data channels in WDM metro rings

Author

Linardakis, Charalambos ; Leligou, Helen-Catherine ; Zontos, Stylianos ; Stavdas, Alexandros

Author_Institution

Electr. Eng. Sch., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece

fYear

2003

fDate

24-27 June 2003

Firstpage

123

Lastpage

127

Abstract

The deployment of WDM technology in metropolitan area networks has moved the bottleneck from capacity to data processing at the network nodes. The data circulating in all wavelengths are converted from optical to electrical for processing, thus increasing considerably the system´s cost and complexity. Abolishing the SONET paradigm, new data control mechanisms are designed for interconnected WDM metro rings, alleviating the required processing and pushing it to the network edges. Moreover, based on these control mechanisms, the transport of network data in the optical domain is feasible, reducing the system buffering needs as well as the total number of transceivers in the network nodes. The proposed scheme has been implemented in hardware for a prototype that supports a total of 1.2 Tbps metro traffic; its design is described.

Keywords

access protocols; metropolitan area networks; optical fibre networks; telecommunication congestion control; wavelength division multiplexing; 1.2 Tbit/s; MAC protocol; SONET paradigm; bottleneck; buffering needs; data control mechanisms; high speed slotted data channels; interconnected WDM metro rings; metropolitan area networks; network data; optical domain; transceivers; Costs; Data processing; High speed optical techniques; Metropolitan area networks; Optical buffering; Optical control; Optical interconnections; SONET; Wavelength conversion; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Switching and Routing, 2003, HPSR. Workshop on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7710-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HPSR.2003.1226691

Filename

1226691