Demonstration of an optical-label switching router with multicast and contention resolution at mixed data rates

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 307-309

  Pan, Zhong ^a,b   Yang, Haijun ^a,b   Zhu, Zuqing ^a,b   Yoo, S J Ben ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Contention resolution; Multicast; Optical packet switching; Optical label switching (OLS)

Indexed keywords

LABELING; LABELS; MODULATION; MULTICASTING;

10 GB/ S; CONTENTION RESOLUTION; CROSS-PHASE MODULATION; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER WAVELENGTH CONVERTER; MIXED DATA; MULTI WAVELENGTHS; MULTICAST; OPTICAL PACKET SWITCHING; OPTICAL-; OPTICAL-LABEL SWITCHING; OPTICAL-LABEL SWITCHING (OLS); UNICAST; WAVELENGTH DOMAINS;

TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

EID: 33747615072     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.862003     Document Type: Article

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