Transparent Optical Packet Switching Node based on Bottom-up Organization Network

Felipe Rudge Barbosa, Antonio Sachs

DOI: 10.14209/sbrt.2004.258

Evento: XXI Simpósio Brasileiro de Telecomunicações (SBrT2004)

Keywords: Optical packet switching photonic networks optical communication systems

Abstract

We present here the results of an analytical model describing the behavior of communication traffic in an optical packet metro-access network that is able to work without a control plane. The transparent optical node model exemplifies an application for a simple node behavior that has been experimentally demonstrated. The efficient optical nodes in 2x2 mesh architecture adequately connected to create a smart network that shows excellent performance, low latency and high throughput, with a minimum management cost. Without using control planes or complex network control protocols, the optical network functionalities emerge from simple physical properties associated with the operation of the optical packet switching node.

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