Title :
Performance evaluation and demonstration of light-trails in shared wavelength optical networks (SWONs)
Author :
Gumaste, Ashwin ; Palacharia, P. ; Naito, Takao
Author_Institution :
Fujitsu Labs. of America Inc., Richardson, TX, USA
Abstract :
Light-trails are a promising candidate for grooming of traffic in the optical layer. We investigated the performance of light-trails via theory, simulation and experiment focusing on its efficiency.
Keywords :
IP networks; multipath channels; optical fibre networks; telecommunication traffic; light-trails; optical layer; shared wavelength optical networks; traffic grooming;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location :
IET
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-543-1
