Optical packet routers: How they can efficiently and cost-effectively scale to petabits per second [Invited]

Journal of Optical Networking

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 876-894

  Stavdas, A ^a   Politi, C ^a   Orphanoudakis, T ^a   Drakos, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PELOPONNESE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COST EFFECTIVENESS; COSTS; NETWORK LAYERS; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

DATA-CENTRIC NETWORKS; END-TO-END QUALITY OF SERVICE; NETWORK RESOURCE; OPTICAL PACKET ROUTER; POWER CONSUMPTION ESTIMATION; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRAFFIC PATTERN; TRAFFIC VOLUMES;

ROUTERS;

EID: 55249097654     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15365379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JON.7.000876     Document Type: Article

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