Novel implementations and test-bed demonstrations of application-aware OBS network architectures

Author

Nejabati, Reza ; Zervas, Georgios ; Simeonidou, Dimitra

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Electron. Syst., Univ. of Essex, Colchester

Volume

3

fYear

2008

fDate

22-26 June 2008

Firstpage

123

Lastpage

125

Abstract

This paper presents a novel solution towards application aware photonic networking. The solution utilises optical burst switching and application aware router technologies. We demonstrate application-aware bandwidth reservation in an end-to-end multi-bit rate (10 Gbps and 40 Gbps), multi-granular OBS test-bed. This is achieved by hardware implementation and deployment of a hybrid switches based on MEMS and SOA-MZI technologies. We also demonstrate seamless, one-step establishment of application and data layer connections by modifying and extending the JIT OBS protocol.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; microswitches; optical burst switching; optical fibre networks; photonic switching systems; semiconductor optical amplifiers; telecommunication network routing; MEMS technologies; SOA-MZI technologies; application aware photonic networking; application aware router technologies; application-aware OBS network architectures; application-aware bandwidth reservation; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; data layer connections; hybrid switches; optical burst switching; test-bed demonstrations; Bandwidth; Field programmable gate arrays; High speed optical techniques; Laser tuning; Optical burst switching; Optical control; Optical fiber networks; Optical switches; Testing; Tunable circuits and devices; application-aware network; hybrid switch; optical burst switching; optical test-bed;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2008. ICTON 2008. 10th Anniversary International Conference on

Conference_Location

Athens

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2625-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2626-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2008.4598670

Filename

4598670