Research Article
A high speed network interface card for optical burst switched networks
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/BROADNETS.2004.5, author={Mrugendra Singhai and Pronita Mehrotra and Patrick Hamilton and Mike Pratt and Mike Cassada and Dan Stevenson}, title={A high speed network interface card for optical burst switched networks}, proceedings={1st Annual Conference on Broadband Networks}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={BROADNETS}, year={2004}, month={12}, keywords={}, doi={10.1109/BROADNETS.2004.5} }- Mrugendra Singhai
Pronita Mehrotra
Patrick Hamilton
Mike Pratt
Mike Cassada
Dan Stevenson
Year: 2004
A high speed network interface card for optical burst switched networks
BROADNETS
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/BROADNETS.2004.5
Abstract
Optical burst switching (OBS) is emerging as an optical networking technology combining best of the features of optical circuit-switching technology and optical packet-switching technology. This paper discusses architecture and hardware implementation of a network interface card (NIC) for an OBS network. The NIC implements a specific low-latency signaling protocol just-in-time (JlT) for OBS networks. This NIC can handle data streams up to 1 Gbps. Average OBS JIT signaling message processing time with this NIC is on the order of 1 microsecond. This is the first JIT OBS NIC implementation known to the authors. Complementary efforts are on-going to develop other elements for the OBS network.
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