Title :
Wireless-datacenter backhaul over hardware virtualized flexible optical network
Author :
Rofoee, B.R. ; Zervas, Georgios ; Yan Yan ; Shuping Peng ; Nejabati, Reza ; Tzanakaki, Anna ; Simeonidou, Dimitra
Author_Institution :
High Performance Networks Group, Univ. of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Abstract :
Architecture design extensions for Time Shared Optical Network (TSON) are proposed for mobile backhaul. It introduces higher rates, flexible sub-lambda or lambda modes of operation, and dynamic memory allocation facilitating infrastructure virtualization and reprogramming.
Keywords :
channel allocation; optical fibre networks; TSON; architecture design extension; dynamic memory allocation; hardware virtualized flexible optical network; infrastructure reprogramming; infrastructure virtualization; mobile backhaul; time shared optical network; wireless-datacenter backhaul; Field programmable gate arrays; Memory management; Optical buffering; Optical network units; Optical switches; Random access memory; Resource management;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-5575-2994-7
DOI :
10.1364/OFC.2014.M3H.6
