Towards petabit/s all-optical flat data center networks based on WDM optical cross-connect switches with flow control

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 34, Issue 17, 2016, Pages 4066-4075

  Miao, Wang ^a   Yan, Fulong ^a   Calabretta, Nicola ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Data center network; Flow control; Optical cross connect; Optical packet switching; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

CROSS CONNECTIONS (WATER DISTRIBUTION); FLOW CONTROL; MULTIPLEXING; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; PACKET LOSS; ROUTERS; SWITCHING; SWITCHING NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TIME SWITCHES; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

DATA CENTER NETWORKS; END TO END LATENCIES; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; HIGHER ORDER MODULATION; OPTICAL CROSS CONNECT SWITCHES; OPTICAL CROSS-CONNECT; OPTICAL PACKET SWITCHING; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 84987750890     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2016.2593040     Document Type: Article

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