A multihop 2×2 all-optical photonic packet switch

Author

Blumenthal, D.J. ; Feuerstein, R.J. ; Sauer, J.R.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput.Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

1-5 May 1994

Firstpage

1364

Abstract

We describe an all-optical packet switch architecture and present experimental results of all-optical multihop routing using 2×2 photonic packet switches. The switch is designed for distributed switching systems. At each hop, the full functions of self-routing, contention resolution, and header regeneration/reinsertion are performed with both switch inputs active. These results demonstrate a basic level of functionality needed to build full scale all-optical packet switched networks. Deflection routing is used to arbitrate contention. Three hops without optical amplification is demonstrated at a switch throughput of 36.4 Mpackets/sec, 145.6 Mbits/sec with a four bit payload. WDM out-of-band signaling is used to code and process the packet control header

Keywords

packet switching; photonic switching systems; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication signalling; wavelength division multiplexing; 145.6 Mbit/s; WDM out-of-band signaling; all-optical multihop routing; all-optical packet switched networks; all-optical photonic packet switch; code; contention resolution; deflection routing; distributed switching systems; experimental results; header regeneration/reinsertion; packet control header; self-routing; switch inputs; Optical packet switching; Optical switches; Packet switching; Payloads; Routing; Signal processing; Stimulated emission; Switching systems; Throughput; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1994. ICC '94, SUPERCOMM/ICC '94, Conference Record, 'Serving Humanity Through Communications.' IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1825-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.1994.368883

Filename

368883