Buffering and control in an all-optical packet switching node

Author

Wosinska, Lena ; Thylen, Lars ; Oberg, Johnny

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Royal Inst. of Technol., Kista, Sweden

Volume

1

fYear

2005

fDate

3-7 July 2005

Firstpage

205

Abstract

In this paper we study novel types of optical memories in context of their usefulness for optical buffering applications. We describe a new type of photonic packet switch with electrical shared buffering and show that the employment of a few optical buffer positions to complement the electronic ones significantly improves the switch performance. Different admission algorithms are applied in order to provide quality of service support. Furthermore, we propose two designs for the node control block.

Keywords

buffer storage; optical fibre networks; optical storage; packet switching; photonic switching systems; quality of service; telecommunication congestion control; QoS; admission algorithm; all-optical packet switching node; control block; electrical shared buffering; optical buffering; optical memory; photonic packet switch; quality of service; Communication switching; Communication system control; Optical buffering; Optical control; Optical fiber networks; Optical network units; Optical packet switching; Optical switches; Packet switching; Quality of service;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2005, Proceedings of 2005 7th International Conference

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9236-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2005.1505787

Filename

1505787