An optical packet-switched IP-over-WDM metro ring network

Author

Bengi, K.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Commun. Networks, Vienna Univ. of Technol., Austria

fYear

2002

fDate

6-8 Nov. 2002

Firstpage

43

Lastpage

52

Abstract

Novel distributed medium access protocols for a time-slotted WDM metro ring employing optical packet switching and supporting variable-length data packets, such as IP datagrams, directly in the optical layer are proposed. A scalable multi-hop WDM ring is considered since we assume many more nodes than available wavelengths in the network. In the underlying control-channel based architecture, each node is equipped with three transmitters (two fixed-tuned and one tunable) and two fixed-tuned receivers. The new access control scheme relies on a frame-based slot reservation strategy including reservation of successive slots for data packets longer than the given slot size, and immediate access for packets shorter than the slot length. Thus, a highly efficient IP-over-WDM metro network with simple receiver hardware is obtained.

Keywords

access protocols; metropolitan area networks; optical fibre networks; optical receivers; optical transmitters; packet switching; wavelength division multiplexing; IP datagrams; IP-over-WDM network; control-channel based architecture; fixed-tuned receivers; fixed-tuned transmitters; frame-based slot reservation; medium access protocols; metro ring network; optical packet switching; optical ring network; scalable multi-hop ring; tunable transmitters; variable-length data packets; Access control; Access protocols; Hardware; Optical fiber networks; Optical packet switching; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Optical variables control; Spread spectrum communication; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks, 2002. Proceedings. LCN 2002. 27th Annual IEEE Conference on

ISSN

0742-1303

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1591-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.2002.1181763

Filename

1181763