Cross-Layer Communication With an Optical Packet Switched Network via a Message Injection Control Interface

Message injection control and queue management for an optical packet switched network is demonstrated via interoperation of a network with an optical interface buffer. In a time-slotted manner, cross-layer signaling is employed between the input buffer and network to dynamically reroute dropped payload packets with multiple wavelength-striped 10-Gb/s channels. At the output of the network, error-free transmission with bit-error-rates less than were confirmed, with an introduced power penalty of 3.5 dB.