{"title":"Router design for optical Cartesian networks","authors":"N. Sheth, Larry Hughes","doi":"10.1109/CNSR.2005.54","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The paper describes the progress in the research, design, and development of an all-optical router for the optical switching of packets in Cartesian networks (a novel network akin to mesh networks). The importance of all-optical packet switching/routing for convergent, next generation transport network is described. The selection of Cartesian routing as the basic routing methodology for all-optical packets is justified. The photonic packet switch/router architecture is studied in detail. Various design issues related to an all-optical node, such as header synchronization, header processing and optical buffering have been addressed. The functionality modelling of optical components and optical switch/router simulation algorithms are presented as well.","PeriodicalId":166700,"journal":{"name":"3rd Annual Communication Networks and Services Research Conference (CNSR'05)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2005-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"3rd Annual Communication Networks and Services Research Conference (CNSR'05)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CNSR.2005.54","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The paper describes the progress in the research, design, and development of an all-optical router for the optical switching of packets in Cartesian networks (a novel network akin to mesh networks). The importance of all-optical packet switching/routing for convergent, next generation transport network is described. The selection of Cartesian routing as the basic routing methodology for all-optical packets is justified. The photonic packet switch/router architecture is studied in detail. Various design issues related to an all-optical node, such as header synchronization, header processing and optical buffering have been addressed. The functionality modelling of optical components and optical switch/router simulation algorithms are presented as well.