A high speed network interface card for optical burst switched networks

Mrugendra Singhai; Pronita Mehrotra; Patrick Hamilton; Mike Pratt; Mike Cassada; Dan Stevenson

1st Annual Conference on Broadband Networks

Research Article

A high speed network interface card for optical burst switched networks

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    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},
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    doi={10.1109/BROADNETS.2004.5}
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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

Mrugendra Singhai¹^,*, Pronita Mehrotra¹, Patrick Hamilton¹, Mike Pratt¹, Mike Cassada¹, Dan Stevenson¹

1: Advanced Networking Research, MCNC-RDI, 3021 Cornwallis Road, RTP NC 27709

*Contact email: msinghai@anr.mcnc.org

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.

Published: 2004-12-13
Publisher: IEEE

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/BROADNETS.2004.5