Multi-granular optical cross-connect: Design, analysis, and demonstration

Journal of Optical Communications and Networking

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 69-84

  Zervas, Georgios S ^a   De Leenheer, Marc ^b   Sadeghioon, Lida ^a   Klonidis, Dimitris ^c   Qin, Yixuan ^a   Nejabati, Reza ^a   Simeonidou, Dimitra ^a   Develder, Chris ^b   Dhoedt, Bart ^b   Demeester, Piet ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c ATHENS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Demonstration; Multi granular optical cross connect; Optical burst switching; Optical circuit switching; Simulation analysis

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING; COST-EFFECTIVE APPROACH; MULTI-BIT; MULTI-GRANULAR OPTICAL CROSS-CONNECT; OPTICAL CIRCUIT SWITCHING; OPTICAL CROSS-CONNECT; OPTICAL PACKET SWITCHING; PROPOSED ARCHITECTURES; RECONFIGURABILITY; SIMULATION ANALYSIS; SWITCH ELEMENT; TRANSPORT SERVICES;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DEMONSTRATIONS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PACKET SWITCHING; SWITCHING NETWORKS;

OPTICAL BURST SWITCHING;

EID: 67651156148     PISSN: 19430620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOCN.1.000069     Document Type: Article

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