1st International ICST Workshop on Optical Burst/Packet Switching

Research Article

Design considerations for photonic routers supporting application-driven bandwidth reservations at sub-wavelength granularity

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/BROADNETS.2006.4374333,
        author={Dimitra Simeonidou and Georgios Zervas and Reza Nejabati},
        title={Design considerations for photonic routers supporting application-driven bandwidth reservations at sub-wavelength granularity},
        proceedings={1st International ICST Workshop on Optical Burst/Packet Switching},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={WOBS},
        year={2006},
        month={10},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1109/BROADNETS.2006.4374333}
    }
    
  • Dimitra Simeonidou
    Georgios Zervas
    Reza Nejabati
    Year: 2006
    Design considerations for photonic routers supporting application-driven bandwidth reservations at sub-wavelength granularity
    WOBS
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/BROADNETS.2006.4374333
Dimitra Simeonidou1,*, Georgios Zervas1,*, Reza Nejabati1,*
  • 1: Department of Electronic Systems Engineering, University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK
*Contact email: dsimeo@essex.ac.uk , gzerva@essex.ac.uk , rnejab@essex.ac.uk

Abstract

This paper presents hybrid optical router architectures (both edge and core) to support user-defined bandwidth reservations for emerging and evolving applications over wavelength channels (circuit), optical bursts or even optical packets. The edge router is based on the deployment of application-aware IP packet classification and burst/packet aggregation algorithms as well as agile and intelligent optical resource allocation. The mechanism is responsible for per application switching (OCS/OBS/OPS) service selection and Differentiated Service (DiffServ) provisioning. The optical core router can support all the abovementioned switching technologies. Both are generic and able to support any type of current or future application.