Demonstration of an agile hybrid IP-optical packet construction mechanism in wavelength routed optical packet switched networks

Author

Nejabati, Reza ; Klonidis, Dimitris ; Simeonidou, Dimitra ; O´Mahony, Mike

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Syst. Eng., Essex Univ., Colchester, UK

Volume

9

Issue

6

fYear

2005

fDate

6/1/2005 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

552

Lastpage

554

Abstract

This paper presents a novel architecture for an ingress edge OPS router and demonstrates a mechanism that maps Internet traffic onto optical packets. The architecture utilises a high-speed reconfigurable hardware platform and a fast tunable laser and also supports the user network interface (UNI) functionality by fully interacting with the physical and higher network layers. The main design issues, including wavelength agility, traffic aggregation based on the class of service and variable length optical packet construction and transmission are also discussed.

Keywords

IP networks; Internet; optical fibre networks; reconfigurable architectures; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication traffic; user interfaces; wavelength division multiplexing; Internet traffic; UNI; high-speed reconfigurable hardware platform; hybrid IP-optical packet construction mechanism; ingress edge OPS router; optical packet switching; traffic aggregation; tunable laser; user network interface; wavelength routed optical network; Hardware; High speed optical techniques; Internet; Laser theory; Network interfaces; Optical design; Optical packet switching; Telecommunication traffic; Tunable circuits and devices; Wavelength routing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2005.1437368

Filename

1437368