Title :
Hardware Accelerated Impairment-Aware Control Plane for Future Optical Networks
Author :
Qin, Yixuan ; Azodolmolky, Siamak ; Gunkel, Matthias ; Nejabati, Reza ; Simeonidou, Dimitra
Author_Institution :
Sch. of CSEE, Univ. of Essex, Colchester, UK
fDate :
9/1/2011 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
In this letter, a hardware accelerated GMPLS based and impairment-aware control plane suitable for optical networks with concurrent lightpath requests support is proposed and evaluated. It outperforms the software version by 80 times in the order of sub-seconds. The high acceleration rate, simultaneous requests support, scalability and low computation time variance are the key features of this tool.
Keywords :
concurrency control; field programmable gate arrays; multiprotocol label switching; optical fibre networks; FPGA; concurrent lightpath request support; future optical networks; hardware accelerated GMPLS; hardware accelerated impairment-aware control plane; Acceleration; Estimation; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Optical fiber networks; Pipelines; Software; Control plane; FPGA; Q factor; hardware accelerator; impairment aware; optical networking;
Journal_Title :
Communications Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LCOMM.2011.070711.110410
