Techniques for optical packet switching and optical burst switching.

Techniques for optical packet switching and optical burst switching.

Wavelength-division multiplexing appears to be the solution of choice for providing a faster networking infrastructure that can meet the explosive growth of the Internet. Several different technologies have been developed so far for the transfer of data over WDM. We survey two new technologies which...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE Communications magazine 39, 1 (2001).
Main Author: Xu, Lisong
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
IP traffic transport.
Internet.
WDM.
Contention resolution.
Lightpaths.
Networking infrastructure.
Optical burst switching.
Optical packet switching.
Packet coding.
Wavelength routing switch.
Wavelength-division multiplexing.