optical network
RSS optical networkOn the Throughput-Cost Tradeoff of Multi-Tiered Optical Network Architectures
White Paper This paper conducts a throughput-cost study of several optical network architectures: Optical Flow Switching (OFS), Tell-and-Go (TaG), Electronic Packet Switching (EPS), and Generalized MultiProtocol Label Switching (GMPLS). [18 Jul 2008]
Joint Source-Channel Multistream Coding and Optical Network Adapter Design for Video Over IP
White Paper The paper consists of three equally weighted subtopics which cover some novel thoughts in designing and implementing the video over IP system in the different areas, namely, a Synchronous Optical NETwork (SONET) network adapter for backbone... [18 Jul 2008]
Wavelength-Division-Multiplexed Passive Optical Network (WDM-PON) Technologies for Broadband Access: A Review [Invited]
White Paper The Passive Optical Network (PON) is an optical fiber based network architecture, which can provide much higher bandwidth in the access network compared to traditional copper-based networks. This includes enabling device technologies for WDM-PONs... [18 Jul 2008]
Optical Network Evolution - What Will the Future Bring, and Is This Step Profitable
White Paper The purpose of this paper is to provide current and potential investors in the Optical Internet an accurate estimation of what the next upgrade in the Optical Internet will be, and when it would be wise to invest in the necessary capital equipment. [18 Jul 2008]
On the Capacity of Optical Networks: A Framework for Comparing Different Transport Architectures
White Paper This paper compares three optical transport network architectures: Optical Packet Switching (OPS), Optical Flow Switching (OFS), and Optical Burst Switching (OBS). This comparison is based on a notion of network capacity as the set of exogenous... [18 Jul 2008]
Adaptive Control in Optical Burst-Switching Networks With QoS Support
White Paper An adaptive control scheme is proposed for the transmission of packets burst in an all-optical Burst Switching network. It is believed that the proposed scheme improves both the provided QoS and the class separation in the wavelength-routed optical... [18 Jul 2008]
Utilizing Path Diversity in Optical Packet Switched Interconnection Networks
White Paper SPINet (Scalable Photonic Integrated Network) was recently introduced as an optical packet switched interconnection architecture for local area applications such as high-performance computing systems and storage-area networks. [18 Jul 2008]
A Review of Traffic Grooming in WDM Optical Networks: Architectures and Challenges
White Paper By efficiently grooming low-speed traffic streams onto high-capacity optical channels, it is possible to minimize this electronic processing and eventually increase the network performance. The transmission capacity of a link in today's optical... [18 Jul 2008]
Using Dynamic Optical Networking for High-Speed Access
White Paper Through the use of switched optical circuits the number of hosts that can be supported on a metropolitan area core ring network can be increased significantly at an acceptable grade of service. This proposal enables the use of hybrid Ethernet... [18 Jul 2008]
Design of Hybrid Optical Networks With Waveband and Electrical TDM Switching
White Paper This paper proposes a hybrid optical-electrical switch architecture which integrates all-optical waveband switching and electrical Time-Division-Multiplexed (TDM) switching. The paper investigates the network-optimization problem with static... [18 Jul 2008]
Latency in Grid Over Optical Burst Switching With Heterogeneous Traffic
White Paper Optical Burst Switching (OBS) has been proposed as the next generation optical network for grid computing. This paper envisions a heterogeneous Grid served by an Optical Burst Switching framework, where grid traffic co-exists with IP and/or a 10 GE... [18 Jul 2008]
A Network Management Architecture for Robust Packet Routing in Mesh Optical Access Networks
White Paper This paper describes architecture for optical Local Area Network (LAN) or Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) access. The architecture can be utilized with an arbitrary, link-redundant mesh network (node-redundancy is necessary only to handle all node... [18 Jul 2008]
10 Gbps NRZ-DPSK Modulation in SOA-Based Optical Packet Switching Networks
White Paper In most OPS network architectures, Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers (SOA) are the predominant technology used in switching elements due to their fast switching time, broad gain bandwidth and potential for hybrid integration with optical and... [18 Jul 2008]
Routing and Wavelength Assignment in Optical Networks
White Paper The problem of Routing and Wavelength Assignment (RWA) is critically important for increasing the efficiency of wavelength-routed all-optical networks. Given the physical network structure and the required connections, the RWA problem is to select... [18 Jul 2008]
Light Trails: A Sub-Wavelength Solution for Optical Networking
White Paper MPLS, OBS and OPS have been proposed as solutions to realizing an all-optical network. All-optical networks are able to transport data from source to destination entirely in the optical domain. This is a departure from current optical networks that... [18 Jul 2008]
