Recent advances in optical and hybrid packet switching

Cedric Ware; Wiem Samoud; Philippe Gravey; Mounia Lourdiane

doi:10.1109/ICTON.2016.7550454

Recent advances in optical and hybrid packet switching

Cedric Ware, Wiem Samoud, Philippe Gravey, Mounia Lourdiane

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Abstract

The future of Internet depends on meeting ever-increasing capacity needs while curbing the energy consumption's uncontrolled growth in data networks, especially in switching. Optics has a tremendous potential to solve these challenges, but the lack of practical optical buffers leaves optical packet switches vulnerable to contention, hindering their use even at moderate network loads. Recent developments in optical switching devices (InP- and silicon-based), hybrid packet switching (using electronic buffers in optical switches) and network architectures (where upper layers could tolerate some loss in the optical packet layer) show a possibility that optical packet switches are poised to make a comeback in practical networks.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2016 18th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2016
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Electronic)	9781509014675
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2016.7550454
Publication status	Published - 23 Aug 2016
Externally published	Yes
Event	18th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2016 - Trento, Italy Duration: 10 Jul 2016 → 14 Jul 2016

Publication series

Name	International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks
Volume	2016-August
ISSN (Electronic)	2162-7339

Conference

Conference	18th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2016
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Trento
Period	10/07/16 → 14/07/16

Keywords

Optical packet switching
contention resolution
optical network architectures
opto-electronic devices

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Ware, C, Samoud, W, Gravey, P & Lourdiane, M 2016, Recent advances in optical and hybrid packet switching. in 2016 18th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2016., 7550454, International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, vol. 2016-August, IEEE Computer Society, 18th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2016, Trento, Italy, 10/07/16. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2016.7550454

Recent advances in optical and hybrid packet switching. / Ware, Cedric; Samoud, Wiem; Gravey, Philippe et al.
2016 18th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2016. IEEE Computer Society, 2016. 7550454 (International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks; Vol. 2016-August).

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