Title :
Thousand-port optical packet switch architecture with highly distributed control
Author :
Lucente, S. Di ; Nazarathy, Y. ; Calabretta, N. ; Raz, O. ; Dorren, H.J.S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. Electr. Eng., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Eindhoven, Netherlands
Abstract :
We present an optical packet switch architecture with highly distributed control and contention resolution based on wavelength conversion. Sub-microsecond end-to-end latency and high load operation are feasible while scaling to over thousand ports.
Keywords :
optical control; optical switches; optical wavelength conversion; packet switching; contention resolution; highly distributed control; submicrosecond end-to-end latency; thousand-port optical packet switch architecture; wavelength conversion; Distributed control; Optical interconnections; Optical packet switching; Optical switches; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2011 37th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Geneva
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1918-9
