Title :
All-optical token technique for distributed contention resolution in AWGR-based optical interconnects
Author :
Proietti, Roberto ; Nitta, Christopher ; Yin, Yawei ; Akella, Venkatesh ; Yoo, S.J.B.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
Abstract :
This paper studies the networking performance of a 10Gb/s 64-port AWGR-based optical switch with distributed all-optical contention resolution based on saturation effect in R-SOAs. Significant reduction in latency compared to FBF architecture is observed.
Keywords :
optical interconnections; optical switches; semiconductor optical amplifiers; AWGR-based optical interconnects; FBF architecture; R-SOA; all-optical token technique; distributed all-optical contention resolution; distributed contention resolution; networking performance; optical switch; saturation effect; Computer architecture; Optical buffering; Optical interconnections; Optical switches; Optical transmitters; Throughput;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Burlingame, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0731-5
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2012.6358603
