Publication No 36514

Author(s)

Aracil, J.; Akar, N.; Karasan, E.; Gauger, C.M.*; Hu, G.*

Title

Optical burst switching: a tutorial from e-photon one

Topics

Others

Methods

Others

Keywords

COMMUNICATION NETWORK; OPTICAL BURST SWITCHING; TUTORIAL

Abstract

With recent advances in WDM technology, the amount of bandwidth available on a single fiber has dramatically increased. However, today's electronically packet- switched backbones cannot fully use this bandwidth due to the electronics bottleneck at the routers and switches. One method to overcome this bottleneck is to move to optical circuit switching based on wavelength routing for which an optically-switched wavelength path is established between a source and destination at the expense of reduced statistical multiplexing gains. Optical Burst Switching (OBS) has recently been proposed as an alternative and viable optical switching technology, which is based on burstification of data to cope with current optical switching speeds and also the concept of separation of data and control planes, whereby data is optically switched and control plane remains electronical. This tutorial is prepared to exhibit the view of the European Network of Excellence e-Photon/ONe as well as the state-of-the-art research carried out by the e-Photon/ONe researchers on optical burst switching systems and networks.

Year

2006

Reference entry

Aracil, J.; Akar, N.; Karasan, E.; Gauger, C.M.; Hu, G.
Optical burst switching: a tutorial from e-photon one
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2006), Istanbul, May 2006

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