Title :
Growability of the “staggering switch” architecture
Author_Institution :
AT&T Bell Lab., Holmdel, NJ, USA
Abstract :
The “staggering switch” is an “almost-all” optical packet switch architecture that is based on two rearrangeably nonblocking stages interconnected by optical delay lines with different amounts of delay. The author discusses the switch growability patterns and extension to the WDM (wavelength division multiplexing) case. A scheme that allows optical packet synchronization for the synchronously operated switch is shown
Keywords :
optical delay lines; optical interconnections; optical switches; packet switching; photonic switching systems; reconfigurable architectures; scheduling; sequential switching; synchronisation; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM; optical delay lines; optical packet switch architecture; optical packet synchronization; rearrangeably nonblocking stages; staggering switch; switch growability patterns; synchronously operated switch; wavelength division multiplexing; Delay effects; Delay lines; Fabrics; Optical control; Optical interconnections; Optical packet switching; Optical switches; Packet switching; Scheduling algorithm; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, 1993. ICC '93 Geneva. Technical Program, Conference Record, IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Geneva
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0950-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICC.1993.397330
