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
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