DocumentCode
459490
Title
Performance Analysis of Optical Packet Switches equipped with Multicast Wavelength Converters
Author
Eramo, V. ; Listanti, M.
Author_Institution
Dept. INFOCOM, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy. eramo@infocom.uniroma1.it
Volume
6
fYear
2006
fDate
38869
Firstpage
2524
Lastpage
2531
Abstract
This paper analyses the performance of an Optical Packet Switch equipped with multicast wavelength converters shared among the arriving packets. The architecture performance is evaluated by means of an analytical model and it is compared to the one of an Optical Packet Switch equipped with unicast wavelength converters. The obtained results show that in a multicast traffic scenario the proposed architecture allows the Wavelength Converters to be saved. In some cases the gain can be in the order of 95%.
Keywords
Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical buffering; Optical interferometry; Optical packet switching; Optical switches; Optical wavelength conversion; Performance analysis; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Wavelength division multiplexing; Multicast Converters; Optical Packet Switching; Shared per Node; shared resources;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Communications, 2006. ICC '06. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
Istanbul
ISSN
8164-9547
Print_ISBN
1-4244-0355-3
Electronic_ISBN
8164-9547
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICC.2006.255159
Filename
4024555
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