Architectural considerations for photonic IP router based upon optical code correlation

Author

Kitayama, Ken-ichi ; Wada, Naoya ; Sotobayashi, Hideyuki

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Inf. Syst., Osaka Univ., Japan

Volume

18

Issue

12

fYear

2000

fDate

12/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1834

Lastpage

1844

Abstract

A photonic label switching router (PLSR) of which the photonic label processing is based upon optical code correlation, is investigated. To resolve the electronic router´s bottleneck in current Internet protocol (IP) over wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) networks, we will envision IP over photonic networks in which the PLSRs totally replace the electronic routers. The architectures of PLSR including the photonic label processing, the photonic label swapping, and the optical switching and their optical implementations are studied. Results of proof-of-concept experiments for the photonic label processing and photonic label swapping will confirm the feasibility to attain the target performance: the throughput of 100 Tb/s at least, the processing speed around 10 Gpacket/s, and the number of label entries up to 10 k.

Keywords

Internet; optical correlation; telecommunication network routing; transport protocols; wavelength division multiplexing; 100 Tbit/s; Internet protocol; WDM; optical code correlation; photonic IP route; photonic label processing; photonic label swapping; photonic label switching router; processing speed; target performance; wavelength division multiplexing; Asynchronous transfer mode; Code division multiplexing; IP networks; Multiprotocol label switching; Optical fiber networks; Protocols; Routing; Telecommunication traffic; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/50.908749

Filename

908749