Prospects and research issues in multi-dimensional all optical networks

Science China Information Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2016, Pages

  Ji, Yuefeng ^a   Zhang, Jiawei ^a   Zhao, Yongli ^a   Yu, Xiaosong ^a   Zhang, Jie ^a   Chen, Xue ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

all optical network; all optical network innovation; multi dimensional optical switching; optical network virtualization; software defined optical network

Indexed keywords

ENERGY UTILIZATION; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; MULTIPLEXING; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL SWITCHES; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TESTBEDS; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ALL- OPTICAL NETWORKS; BANDWIDTH PROVISIONING; INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT); LOW-LATENCY TRANSMISSION; MULTIPLEXING TECHNOLOGIES; NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION; OPTICAL SWITCHING; SPACE DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

SPACE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

EID: 84987870699     PISSN: 1674733X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11432-016-0324-7     Document Type: Review

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