Novel Architectures of Asynchronous Optical Packet Switch
Conference: ECOC 2007 - 33rd European Conference and Exhibition of Optical Communication
09/16/2007 - 09/20/2007 at Berlin, Germany
Proceedings: ECOC 2007
Pages: 2Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Chen, Jiajia; Wosinska, Lena; Thyln, Lars; He, Sailing (The Royal Institute of Technology KTH/ICT, Electrum 229, Isafjordsgatan 24, 164 40 Kista, SWEDEN)
Chen, Jiajia; He, Sailing (Zhejiang University ZJU, COER/JLOC, Hangzhou 310058, CHINA)
Chen, Jiajia; Wosinska, Lena; Thyln, Lars; He, Sailing (JORCEP, Joint Research Center of Photonics of the KTH (Sweden) and ZJU (China))
Abstract:
We propose two asynchronous optical packet switch architectures, with efficient contention resolution based on controllable optical buffers and tunable wavelength converters TWCs. Providing a few shared optical buffers significantly boosts the performance obtained by TWCs.