Fully-elastic multi-granular network with space/frequency/time switching using multi-core fibres and programmable optical nodes

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 8865-8872

  Amaya, N ^a   Irfan, M ^a   Zervas, G ^a   Nejabati, R ^a   Simeonidou, D ^a   Sakaguchi, J ^b   Klaus, W ^b   Puttnam, Bj ^b   Miyazawa, T ^b   Awaji, Y ^b   Wada, N ^b   Henning, I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS;

END-TO-END PERFORMANCE; MULTI CORE; MULTI-GRANULAR NETWORKS; POWER PENALTY; SPACE DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; TIME DIMENSION;

OPTICS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER NETWORK; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FIBER OPTICS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL DEVICES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84875992545     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.008865     Document Type: Article

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