Optical Burst Transport: A Technology for the WDM Metro Ring Networks

Author

Kim, Jaedon ; Cho, Jinwoo ; Das, Saurav ; Gutierrez, David ; Jain, Mayank ; Su, Ching-Fong ; Rabbat, Richard ; Hamada, Takeo ; Kazovsky, Leonid G.

Author_Institution

Stanford Univ., CA

Volume

25

Issue

1

fYear

2007

Firstpage

93

Lastpage

102

Abstract

We propose a sublambda traffic-grooming scheme on wavelength-division-multiplexing ring networks, named optical burst transport. The network protocol and architecture are designed to support dynamic bandwidth allocation, which is more reasonable for bursty data traffic. To verify our network protocol and architecture, we build a testbed which supports burst-mode transmission. Also, we transmit streaming video over Ethernet as an application

Keywords

bandwidth allocation; metropolitan area networks; optical fibre LAN; telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; video streaming; wavelength division multiplexing; Ethernet; WDM networks; burst-mode transmission; bursty data traffic; dynamic bandwidth allocation; metro ring networks; network protocol; optical burst transport; streaming video transmission; sublambda traffic-grooming scheme; wavelength-division multiplexing; Bandwidth; High speed optical techniques; Optical fiber networks; Optical packet switching; Passive optical networks; SONET; Synchronous digital hierarchy; Telecommunication traffic; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing; Metropolitan area network (MAN); optical burst transport (OBT); traffic grooming;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2006.888483

Filename

4137596