• DocumentCode
    399203
  • Title

    Optical time-to-live decrementing and subsequent dropping of an optical packet

  • Author

    McGeehan, J. ; Kumar, S. ; Willner, A. ; Bannister, J. ; Touch, J.

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    23-28 March 2003
  • Firstpage
    798
  • Abstract
    An optical time-to-live (TTL) decrementing module for optical packet-switched networks is demonstrated. Our module acts on an NRZ-modulated binary TTL field and decrements it, drops a packet if its TTL is zero, and is independent of the TTL length.
  • Keywords
    packet switching; switching networks; NRZ-modulated binary optical time-to-live field; optical packet-switched networks; optical time-to-live decrementing module; Extinction ratio; Optical fiber networks; Optical pulses; Optical saturation; Optical signal processing; Optical waveguides; Performance gain; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Semiconductor waveguides; Stimulated emission;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communications Conference, 2003. OFC 2003
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-746-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.2003.1248580
  • Filename
    1248580