Title : 
Dynamic enhancement of internode transmission capacity in IP over AWG-STAR network
         
        
            Author : 
Higashiyama, Ryo ; Yamaguchi, Minoru ; Toyonaga, Ken ; Koyama, Osanori ; Yamada, Makoto
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Electr. & Inf. Syst., Osaka Prefecture Univ., Sakai, Japan
         
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We propose a novel IP over AWG-STAR network with dynamically relocatable wavelength paths via communication node-side control. Experimental results demonstrate that the transmission capacity between communication nodes can be dynamically increased from 1 Gbps to 3 Gbps via adding looped-back wavelength paths to the internode in the proposed IP over AWG-STAR network we constructed experimentally.
         
        
            Keywords : 
IP networks; arrayed waveguide gratings; optical fibre networks; IP over AWG-STAR network; arrayed waveguide grating; communication node-side control; dynamically relocatable wavelength paths; internode transmission capacity dynamic enhancement; looped-back wavelength paths; Arrayed waveguide gratings; IP networks; Indium phosphide; Optical losses; Optical switches; Throughput; Wavelength routing; IP over WDM network; arrayed waveguide grating; wavelength routing;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Communications (APCC), 2014 Asia-Pacific Conference on
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/APCC.2014.7091655