• DocumentCode
    3034212
  • Title

    Scaling optical packet buffers

  • Author

    Dorren, H.J.S. ; Calabretta, N. ; Raz, O.

  • Author_Institution
    ECO-group, Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Eindhoven
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    4-7 Aug. 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We investigate how much buffering is required in optical packet routers. In particular, we investigate how the buffering-depth scales with the number of ports of the router and how the packet loss and throughput depend on the network load.
  • Keywords
    optical fibre networks; telecommunication network routing; network load; optical packet buffer scaling; optical packet routers; Buffer storage; Digital signal processing; Energy consumption; Optical buffering; Optical network units; Optical packet switching; Optical signal processing; Optical switches; Signal processing; Throughput; Optical buffering; optical networking;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics in Switching, 2008. PS 2008. International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Sapporo
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4326-0
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-4-8855-2228-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PS.2008.4804270
  • Filename
    4804270