All-Optical Contention Resolution With Wavelength Conversion for Asynchronous Variable-Length 40 Gb/s Optical Packets

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 689-691

  Rangarajan, Suresh ^a   Hu, Zhaoyang ^a   Rau, Lavanya ^a   Blumenthal, Daniel J ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Contention resolution; Optical buffers; Optical packet switching; Optical routing

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PACKET SWITCHING; PROBABILITY; ROUTERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

CONTENTION RESOLUTION; OPTICAL BUFFERS; OPTICAL PACKET SWITCHING; OPTICAL ROUTING;

PACKET NETWORKS;

EID: 1342347989     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.819361     Document Type: Article

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