Packet-based Lane Bundling for Terabit-LAN

Author

Kobayashi, Shoukei ; Yamada, Yoshiaki ; Hisadome, Kenji ; Ishida, Osamu

Author_Institution

NTT Network Innovation Labs., NTT Corp., Yokosuka

fYear

2008

fDate

14-16 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

We propose packet-based lane bundling (PLB) that provides an ideal aggregated bandwidth link for an application. PLB uses time information to align packets and allows a dynamic lane and/or path change, a large difference in transmission delays among lanes, and so on. The basic performance of PLB in 10 Gb/s times 2 lanes is verified using an estimation board that is newly developed to evaluate the basic functions used for Terabit-LANs. The evaluation shows that PLB achieves a very low delay variation that is almost the same as that under back-to-back conditions. The difference is approximately 10 ns when the transmission delay varies from 10 mus to 1 s.

Keywords

local area networks; packet switching; Terabit-LAN; delay variation; inverse multiplexing; link aggregation; packet-based lane bundling; time information; Bandwidth; Delay effects; Delay estimation; Ethernet networks; HDTV; Optical fiber networks; Physical layer; Resource management; TV; Web and internet services; Lambda Access; Terabit-LAN; aggregated bandwidth link; delay variation; inverse multiplexing; link aggregation; packet-based lane bundling; time information;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2008. APCC 2008. 14th Asia-Pacific Conference on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Print_ISBN

978-4-88552-232-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-4-88552-231-4

Type

conf

Filename

4773706