Techniques for optical packet switching and optical burst switching

Author

Xu, Lisong ; Perros, Harry G. ; Rouskas, George

Author_Institution

North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, USA

Volume

39

Issue

1

fYear

2001

fDate

1/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

136

Lastpage

142

Abstract

Wavelength-division multiplexing appears to be the solution of choice for providing a faster networking infrastructure that can meet the explosive growth of the Internet. Several different technologies have been developed so far for the transfer of data over WDM. We survey two new technologies which are still in the experimental stage-optical packet switching and optical burst switching-and comment on their suitability for transporting IP traffic

Keywords

optical switches; packet switching; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication switching; telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; wavelength division multiplexing; IP traffic transport; Internet; WDM; contention resolution; lightpaths; networking infrastructure; optical burst switching; optical packet switching; packet coding; wavelength routing switch; wavelength-division multiplexing; Code division multiplexing; Fabrics; Optical burst switching; Optical fiber networks; Optical network units; Optical packet switching; Optical switches; Payloads; Telecommunication traffic; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/35.894388

Filename

894388