Broadband multicasting for wavelength-striped optical packets

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1706-1718

  Lai, Caroline P ^a   Bergman, Keren ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Future internet; multicast networks; optical communication; photonic switching systems; routing; wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

FUTURE INTERNET; MULTICAST NETWORK; PHOTONIC SWITCHING SYSTEMS; ROUTING; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (WDM);

ARCHITECTURE; DESIGN; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL SWITCHES;

MULTICASTING;

EID: 84859791783     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2012.2188276     Document Type: Article

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