Overflow buffering in an all-optical switched cross-connect

Autor: H.J.S. Dorren, F.W. Leuschner, G.D. Khoe, Y. Liu, R. Geldenhuys
Rok vydání: 2005
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Zdroj: 2004 IEEE Africon. 7th Africon Conference in Africa (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37590).
DOI: 10.1109/africon.2004.1406834
Popis: This work considers the performance of an all-optical packet-switched cross-connect. All-optical header processing and all-optical routing are implemented in the cross-connect architectures. The main metric considered to measure the performance is the packet loss ratio for the buffering. A recirculating buffer is implemented with a degenerate configuration. It is shown that the unsatisfactory performance achieved taking the self-similarity of the traffic into account can be improved using overflow buffering. Overflow buffering utilises available buffer positions in parallel wavelengths of the same physical buffer.
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