Abstract

Feature Issue on Optical Interconnection Networks (OIN). In the design of an optical-packet-switching network, several policy decisions must be made and network parameters must be dimensioned. These decisions determine the network operation and performance. We present an overview of the design alternatives for optical-packet-interconnection network architectures. The issues that are discussed include contention resolution schemes, header processing, and quality-of-service support. The design of metropolitan-area packet-switched networks is also presented in a separate section.

© 2004 Optical Society of America

Virtual Optical Bus: An Efficient Architecture for Packet-Based Optical Transport Networks

Ahmad Rostami and Adam Wolisz
J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 2(11) 901-914 (2010)

Picosecond multistage interconnection network architecture for optical computing

Mohsen Guizani
Appl. Opt. 33(8) 1587-1599 (1994)

Full Featured and Lightweight Control for Optical Packet Metro Networks [Invited]

Lida Sadeghioon, Annie Gravey, Bogdan Uscumlic, Philippe Gravey, and Michel Morvan
J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 7(2) A235-A248 (2015)

Software-Defined Optical Networks and Network Abstraction With Functional Service Design [Invited]

Xiaoyuan Cao, Noboru Yoshikane, Ion Popescu, Takehiro Tsuritani, and Itsuro Morita
J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 9(4) C65-C75 (2017)

Optical and Electronic Combined Buffer Architecture for Optical Packet Switches

Takahiro Hirayama, Takaya Miyazawa, Hideaki Furukawa, and Hiroaki Harai
J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 7(8) 776-784 (2015)