Optical packet switching

Introducing optical switching in high-capacity commercial routers
High-performance packet switches are costly, bulky and power-hungry. Their scalability is constrained by the limits of electronic …
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Traffic shaping trends in optical packet/burst switching networks
This paper surveys a set of relevant techniques proposed for traffic shaping in backbone OBS/OPS networks. The work is intended to fuel …
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Performance evaluation of slotted OPS switching fabrics under self-similar traffic
This paper evaluates the performance of slotted Optical Packet Switching (OPS) switching fabrics under self-similar traffic. The issue …
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Network Processors: A Practical Approach for Achieving Wire-Speed Packet Processing in the Emerging Optical Backbone Networks
In this paper, the wire-speed packet processing issue is studied for optical packet/burst switching (OPS/OBS) switching nodes as well …
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GMPLS Optical Packet Switching Networks: Optical vs. Electronic Feasibility
This paper surveys and analyzes the GMPLS extensions proposed for synchronous slotted optical packet switching (OPS) networks, from the …
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Mathematical programming evaluation of intrinsic survivability in packet-path networks
In this paper, we evaluate the intrinsic survivability of packet-path networks such as ORION ones. By intrinsic survivability we refer …
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Knockout packet loss probability analysis of SCWP optical packet switching wavelength distributed knockout architecture
The deployment of optical packet switching (OPS) in dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) backbone networks is perceived as a …
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A performance study of a knock-out large-scale optical packet switching architecture under SCWP operational mode
Large-scale optical packet switching is in a very immature research state. Specially, the effect of the application of the scattered …
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Optical packet switching fabrics comparison under SCWP/SHWP operational modes
Commercial applications of optical packet switching to backbone WDM networks are still far from reality due to hardware costs. The two …
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Maximal matching characterization of optical packet input-buffered wavelength routed switches
The shared wavelength path (SHWP) and the scattered wavelength path (SCWP) were proposed under the WASPNET (wavelength switched packet …
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