Router design for optical Cartesian networks

Author

Sheth, Nirav ; Hughes, Larry

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Dalhousie Univ., Halifax, NS, Canada

fYear

2005

fDate

16-18 May 2005

Firstpage

9

Lastpage

15

Abstract

The paper describes the progress in the research, design, and development of an all-optical router for the optical switching of packets in Cartesian networks (a novel network akin to mesh networks). The importance of all-optical packet switching/routing for convergent, next generation transport network is described. The selection of Cartesian routing as the basic routing methodology for all-optical packets is justified. The photonic packet switch/router architecture is studied in detail. Various design issues related to an all-optical node, such as header synchronization, header processing and optical buffering have been addressed. The functionality modelling of optical components and optical switch/router simulation algorithms are presented as well.

Keywords

optical fibre networks; packet switching; photonic switching systems; telecommunication network routing; all-optical router design; next generation transport network; optical Cartesian network; optical packet switching; photonic packet switch; Mesh networks; Next generation networking; Optical buffering; Optical design; Optical devices; Optical fiber networks; Optical packet switching; Optical switches; Packet switching; Routing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communication Networks and Services Research Conference, 2005. Proceedings of the 3rd Annual

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2333-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CNSR.2005.54

Filename

1429938