Node architecture design for all-optical IP packet switching

Author

Bregni, Stefano ; Guerra, Giacomo ; Pattavina, Achille

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Inf., Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Volume

3

fYear

2002

fDate

17-21 Nov. 2002

Firstpage

2767

Abstract

In order to support efficiently the fast-growing demand for transmission capacity, optical packet-switched systems seem to be strong candidates as they allow fast dynamic allocation of WDM channels combined with a high degree of statistical resource sharing. We propose the architecture of an input/shared-buffered optical packet switching node, for all-optical switching of IP traffic flows. Since a limited hardware complexity is a key requirement for all-optical switches, due to the high cost of optical components, different node configurations are compared in order to evaluate the effect of a hardware-complexity variation on the performance of the proposed architecture.

Keywords

buffer storage; channel allocation; channel capacity; optical fibre networks; packet switching; photonic switching systems; resource allocation; statistical analysis; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM channels; all-optical IP packet switching; all-optical packet switching; dynamic channel allocation; hardware complexity; node architecture; optical transport network; shared buffer; statistical resource sharing; Costs; Optical buffering; Optical design; Optical devices; Optical fiber networks; Optical packet switching; Optical switches; Packet switching; Telecommunication traffic; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 2002. GLOBECOM '02. IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7632-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2002.1189133

Filename

1189133