Open AccessMetropolitan area network architecture for optical flow switching
Author(s) -
Anny Xijia Zheng,
Lei Zhang,
Vincent W. S. Chan
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of optical communications and networking
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.835
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1943-0639
pISSN - 1943-0620
DOI - 10.1364/jocn.9.000511
Subject(s) - communication, networking and broadcast technologies , photonics and electrooptics
In this work, we provide design concepts of efficient physical and lightpath topology architectures for a LAN/MAN all-optical network that support Optical Flow Switching. We found good architectures are coupled intimately with media access control protocol designs and must be optimized jointly. Two architectures that represent extreme cases were examined: Quasi-Static Architecture and Dynamic Per Flow Routing Architecture. The performance and costs are compared to provide an economical architecture design.