Open AccessHigh performance and flexible FPGA-based time shared optical network (TSON) metro node
Author(s) -
Yan Yan,
Yixuan Qin,
Georgios Zervas,
Bijan Rahimzadeh Rofoee,
Dimitra Simeonidou
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.21.005499
Subject(s) - jitter , latency (audio) , computer science , throughput , node (physics) , computer network , field programmable gate array , quality of service , network topology , computer hardware , telecommunications , engineering , structural engineering , wireless
The paper presents the architecture, implementation and evaluation of the flexible and finely granular Time Shared Optical Network (TSON) metro node. It focuses on the FPGA-based Layer 2 TSON metro node system. The experimentally measured results show exceptional performance of up to 8.68 Gbps throughput per 10 Gbps port, 95.38% of theoretical maximum throughput, latency of less than 160 μsec and jitter of less than 25 μsec. The TSON topology agnostic node/network also delivers differentiated QoS latency levels yet always guaranteed (contention-free) by deploying diverse time-slice allocation schemes.