Experimental demonstration of composite-packet-switched WDM network

Author

Boroditsky, Misha ; Frigo, Nicholas J. ; Lam, Cedric F. ; Dreyer, Kevin F. ; Ackerman, David A. ; Johnson, John E. ; Ketelsen, Leonard J P ; Chen, Antao ; Smiljanic, Aleksandra

Author_Institution

AT&T Labs., Middletown, NJ, USA

Volume

21

Issue

8

fYear

2003

Firstpage

1717

Lastpage

1722

Abstract

We propose and demonstrate experimentally a novel technique for packet switching on a ring network. We use the wavelength dimension to increase the transmission line rate and a novel packet-stacking technique to add/drop packets. Packet stacking is used for transport rate multiplication and for equal loading of wavelengths on the physical layer. Packet stacking, switching, and unstacking have been successfully demonstrated on a four-node hubbed ring network serving five source-destination pairs on four wavelengths. Each wavelength was running at 1-Gb/s bit rate.

Keywords

optical fibre networks; packet switching; telecommunication network routing; wavelength division multiplexing; 1 Gbit/s; WDM; add/drop packets; composite-packet-switched WDM network; equal loading; four-node hubbed ring network; packet switching; packet-stacking technique; photonic slot routing; physical layer; ring network; source-destination pairs; transmission line rate; transport rate multiplication; wavelength dimension; wavelength-division multiplexing; Optical packet switching; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Packet switching; Routing; Stacking; Telecommunication traffic; Tunable circuits and devices; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2003.814928

Filename

1219537