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Broadband Hitless Silicon Electro-Optic Switch for On-Chip Optical Networks
December 7, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper report on the demonstration of a broadband (60 GHz), spectrally hitless, compact (20 µm x 40 µm), fast (7 ns) electro-optical switch. The device is composed of two coupled resonant...
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Single Port Optical Switching in Integrated Ring Resonators
April 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Semiconductor ring lasers (SRLs) are attractive components for all-optical signal processing. They typically lase bidirectional at low drive current and unidirectional at high current due to gain...
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Experimental Demonstration of Optical Switching and Routing Via Four-Wave Mixing Spatial Shift
January 18, 2010, 12:00am PST
The paper demonstrates the shift characteristics of Four-Wave Mixing (FWM) beam spots which are controlled by the strong laser fields via the large cross-Kerr nonlinearity. The shift distances and...
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Virtualizing and Scheduling Optical Network Infrastructure for Emerging IT Services
February 14, 2009, 12:00am PST
Emerging IT services providers which aim at delivering supercomputing power available to the masses over the Internet, rely on high performance IT resources interconnected with ultra-high...
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Point-to-Multipoint VLAN Path Signaling Demonstration on the GMPLS Controlled Ethernet Test Network
January 5, 2010, 12:00am PST
Ethernet has greatly succeeded in Local Area Network (LAN). A simple forwarding scheme of Ethernet facilitated the development of high-speed and cost-effective Ethernet equipments. Ethernet is now...
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Comparison of Static and Dynamic WDM Networks in Terms of Energy Consumption
January 5, 2010, 12:00am PST
Currently, telecommunication networks have been reported to account for 1-10% of the world's energy consumption. Given the ever increasing demand for Internet traffic, this figure is expected to...
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Transparent High-Data-Rate Optical Transmission Through Broadband Hitless Bypass Switches for Chip-Scale Optical Networks
April 12, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Silicon photonics has been realized to provide outstanding performance in very broad range of applications such as short-haul communication, and on-chip global interconnection networks in...
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Clustering Methods for Hierarchical Traffic Grooming in Large-Scale Mesh WDM Networks
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper considers a hierarchical approach for traffic grooming in large multiwavelength networks of a general topology. Inspired by similar concepts in the airline industry, the author...
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Cross-Layer Traffic Grooming for Optical Networks With Hybrid Layer-One and Layer-Zero Signal Regeneration
January 5, 2010, 12:00am PST
Traffic grooming is important for optical transport networks. Most of studies in this area have focused on minimizing total network capacity or maximizing total served traffic demand subject to...
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Coarse Optical Circuit Switching by Default, Rerouting Over Circuits for Adaptation
December 17, 2008, 12:00am PST
As Internet traffic continues to grow unabated at an exponential rate, it is unclear whether the existing packet-routing network architecture based on electronic routers will continue to scale at...
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Broadband All-Optical Modulation in Hydrogenated-Amorphous Silicon Waveguides
April 27, 2010, 12:00am PDT
the authors demonstrate broadband all-optical modulation in low loss hydrogenated-amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) waveguides. Significant modulation (~3 dB) occurs with a device of only 15 £gm without...
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Does Header Length Affect Performance in Optical Burst Switched Networks?
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper investigates the impact of non-negligible Header Length (HL) in optical burst switching on blocking probability. The header length is the total delay of a control packet at the...
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Polysilicon Photonic Resonators for Large-Scale 3D Integration of Optical Networks
December 10, 2007, 12:00am PST
On-chip silicon photonic networks are a promising solution for the interconnect bottleneck in high performance microelectronics, but the additional silicon real estate required to integrate...
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Evaluation of Protection Reconfiguration for Multiple Failures in Optical Networks
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Protection and restoration are important in designing reliable optical networks and have been widely studied in the literature. Most practical studies of high-speed recovery algorithms assume only...
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Lightpath Routing for Maximum Reliability in Optical Mesh Networks
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Authors consider the problem of maximizing the reliability of connections in optical mesh networks against simultaneous failures of multiple fiber links that belong to a shared-risk link group...
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Adaptive Modulation and Coding for Free-Space Optical Channels
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Adaptive modulation and coding can provide robust and spectrally efficient transmission over terrestrial free-space optical channels. Three adaptive modulation schemes are considered in this...
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Integrated Three-Dimensional Optical Multilayer Using Free-Space Optics
September 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Optics is on the way to becoming an alternative interconnection technology for computer communication. As for reasons why, one can state, e.g., it's large bandwidth, its low latency, and its use...
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Coded PPM and Multipulse PPM and Iterative Detection for Free-Space Optical Links
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Signal modulation has an important impact on the system performance in optical communication. Two attractive modulation schemes are Pulse Position Modulation (PPM) and Multi Pulse PPM (MPPM),...
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Fading Reduction by Aperture Averaging and Spatial Diversity in Optical Wireless Systems
October 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Atmospheric turbulence can cause significant performance degradation in free-space optical communication systems. It is well known that the effect of turbulence can be reduced by performing...
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Integrated Polymer Microprisms for Free Space Optical Beam Deflecting
February 19, 2009, 12:00am PST
Authors demonstrate beam deflection and multiple channel communication in free space optical communications using microprisms integrated directly onto an array of Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting...
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A Lexicographically Optimized Routing Algorithm for All-Optical Networks
October 17, 2006, 12:00am PDT
In a transparent, all-optical network, an end-to-end path and wavelength needs to be chosen for each connection request that minimizes connection request blocking probability and maximizes...
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Online Excess Bandwidth Distribution for Ethernet Passive Optical Networks
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Excess bandwidth distribution techniques have recently been proposed to improve the dynamic bandwidth allocation in Ethernet Passive Optical Networks (EPONs). This paper compares existing offline...
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LDPC-Coded Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) Modulation for Free-Space Optical Communication
November 22, 2010, 12:00am PST
An Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) based LDPC-coded modulation scheme suitable for use in FSO communication is proposed. They demonstrate that the proposed scheme can operate under strong...
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Rotational Multiphoton Endoscopy With a 1µM Fiber Laser System
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents multiphoton microendoscopy with a rotational probe and a 1 µm fiber-based femtosecond laser. The rotational probe is based on a double-clad photonic crystal fiber, a gradient...
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High-Speed and Wide Bandwidth Fourier Domain Mode-Locked Wavelength Swept Laser With Multiple SOAs
February 11, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper reports on the development of a high-speed, wide bandwidth Fourier Domain Mode-Locked (FDML) wavelength swept laser of around 1300 nm using two gain media for high-resolution and...
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Large Area High Efficiency Broad Bandwidth 800 nm Dielectric Gratings for High Energy Laser Pulse Compression
December 21, 2009, 12:00am PST
The grating compressor is one of the most critical components of a high power Chirped Pulse Amplification (CPA) laser system. Requirements for the diffraction gratings include: high diffraction...
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Topology-Focused Availability Analysis of Basic Protection Schemes in Optical Transport Networks
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The aggregate bit rate that an optical medium can carry continues growing steadily. Supported by advances in key technologies such as Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM), current networks can...
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Strong Optical Injection-Locked Semiconductor Lasers Demonstrating > 100-GHz Resonance Frequencies and 80-GHz Intrinsic Bandwidths
April 28, 2008, 12:00am PDT
By using strong optical injection locking, the authors report resonance frequency enhancement in excess of 100 GHz in semiconductor lasers. This paper demonstrates this enhancement in Distributed...
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Network Coding in Optical Networks With O/E/O Based Wavelength Conversion
March 4, 2010, 12:00am PST
Network coding is a process by which messages are encoded and sent across computer networks and then decoded at the receivers to optimize use of bandwidth as well as reliability. Optical networks...
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Cross-Layer Survivability In WDM Networks With Multiple Failures
October 7, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors study the survivable lightpath routing problem in the context of multiple failures. The authors define network metrics to quantify the resilience of lightpath routings, and propose...
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Joint Scheduling for Optical Grid Applications
March 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
Optical networking technologies are expected to play an important role in creating an efficient infrastructure for supporting advanced grid applications. Since both the scheduling methods in grid...
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LDPC-Coded OFDM in Fiber-Optics Communication Systems
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) coded Orthogonal-Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is studied as an efficient coded modulation technique suitable for fiber-optics communication systems. The...
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Non-Line-of-Sight Optical Wireless Sensor Network Operating in Multiscattering Channel
August 28, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Networks of sensors are envisaged to be major participants in future data-gathering systems for civilian and military applications, including medical and environmental monitoring and surveillance,...
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Channel Coding and Time-Diversity for Optical Wireless Links
January 12, 2009, 12:00am PST
Atmospheric turbulence can cause significant performance degradation in free space optical communication systems. An efficient solution could be to exploit the temporal diversity to improve the...
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Wireless-PONs With Extended Wavelength Band Overlay
February 9, 2010, 12:00am PST
A novel network architecture featuring wireless transmission by means of FDM over multi-wavelength splitter PONs for enhanced network scalability is described. Assuming the application of a...
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A Torus-Based 4-Way Fault-Tolerant Backbone Network Architecture for Avionic WDM LANs
March 30, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors leverage the torus topology to design a Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) backbone network for operation in hazardous avionic environments. The proposed WDM local...
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Cost Effectiveness of Protection Schemes for IP-Over-WDM Networks
March 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors analyze the cost of IP-over-WDM networks employing survivable traffic grooming protection. The network cost is evaluated in terms of total number of optical transceivers in the...
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Business Prospects of Wide-Scale Deployment of Free Space Optical Technology as a Last-Mile Solution: A Techno-Economic Evaluation
June 14, 2007, 12:00am PDT
A technoeconomic evaluation of the business prospects of a wide-scale deployment of Free Space Optical (FSO) technology as a last-mile solution is carried out. The evaluation is based on a...
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Economics of Time and Wavelength Domain Multiplexed Passive Optical Networks
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Passive Optical Networks (PONs) are being widely considered as a means to implement Fiber-To-The Home (FTTH) and deliver broadband access to business and home users. However, technical and...
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Diversity-Multiplexing Trade-Off in Coherent Free-Space Optical Systems With Multiple Receivers
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
In this paper, from an information theory point of view, the authors investigate the performance of a coherent Free Space Optical (FSO) communication system with multiple receives apertures over...
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A Comparative Performance Study of Load Adaptive Energy Saving Schemes for IP-Over-WDM Networks
March 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
Load adaptive energy saving schemes for backbone IP networks use dynamic transport circuit services to adapt the active network resources to the current traffic demand in order to reduce the...
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Broadcast Transmission in WDM-PON Using a Broadband Light Source
February 13, 2007, 12:00am PST
A novel method to broadcast a video stream to all subscribers in WDM-PON is proposed and experimentally implemented. Using a broadband light source, the authors have achieved successful...
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QoS Differentiation in OBT Ring Networks With Comparison to RPR Networks
February 13, 2007, 12:00am PST
Optical Burst Transport networks employ burst transmission in WDM ring architectures and are promising candidates for MANs. The authors investigate QoS differentiation in OBT, and compare its...
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TDM-PON Security Issues: Upstream Encryption is Needed
February 21, 2007, 12:00am PST
Time Division Multiplexed Passive Optical Networks (TDM-PONs), in its three versions, Ethernet, Broadband and Gigabit PON (EPON, BPON and GPON) are currently being deployed in Asia, North America...
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Differentiated Quality of Protection (QoP) and Cross-Layer Protection for Survivable Hybrid Packet/WDM Networks
September 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors experimentally study how to provide differentiated QoP for hybrid packet/WDM networks by intelligently using survivability from packet layer rerouting, WDM layer protection, or...
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Availability-Aware Routing for Large-Scale Hybrid Wireless-Optical Broadband Access Network
October 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In large-scale hybrid wireless-optical broadband access networks, the availability of wireless links and optical links varies considerably. Availability-aware routing can significantly improve...
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Backup Reprovisioning After Shared Risk Link Group (SRLG) Failures in WDM Mesh Networks
August 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors study the impact of Shared Risk Link Group (SRLG) failures on shared path protection by examining the percentage of connections that are vulnerable after SRLG failures,...
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Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation Schemes for Non-Uniform Traffic in EPON
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
Limited bandwidth allocation scheme in EPON is shown to suffer from poor utilization under non-uniform traffic conditions, particularly as the number of ONUs, guard time and round-trip time...
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Transparent Transmission of a Secure Time Domain Spectral Phase Encoding/Decoding DPSK - OCDM Signal Over a DWDM Network
May 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors propose and experimentally demonstrate a transparent Optical-Code-Division Multiplexing (OCDM) overlay public Dense Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (DWDM) network architecture enabled...
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Algorithmic Study of Complexity of Two QoS Packet Models in an Optical Slotted Ring Network
August 18, 2006, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors consider an optical slotted ring network. They distinguish two QoS packet models. In the first one, each sub-packet of a same packet can be routed independently, and in...
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Optimized Parallel Transmission in OTN/WDM Networks to Support High-Speed Ethernet With Multiple Lane Distribution
March 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
The emerging high-speed Ethernet is expected to take full advantage of the currently deployed optical infrastructure, i.e., Optical Transport Network over Wavelength Division Multiplexing...
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Resource Criticality Analysis of Static Resource Allocations and Its Applications in WDM Network Planning
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Various static resource allocation algorithms have been used in WDM networks to allocate resources such as wavelength channels, transmitters, receivers, and wavelength converters to a given set of...
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Lightpath Scheduling and Routing for Traffic Adaptation in WDM Networks
September 27, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors study the benefits and trade-offs of using scheduled lightpaths for traffic adaptation. They propose a network planning model that allows lightpaths to slide within their desired...
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Cost Minimization Planning for Greenfield Passive Optical Networks
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors plan green-field PON networks to minimize their total deployment costs. They propose an efficient heuristic called the Recursive Association and Relocation Algorithm (RARA) to solve...
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Energy-Minimized Design for IP Over WDM Networks
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
As the Internet expands in reach and capacity, the energy consumption of network equipment increases. To date, the cost of transmission and switching equipment has been considered to be the major...
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Architecture Design and Performance Evaluation of Multigranularity Optical Networks Based on Optical Code Division Multiplexing
December 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
In traditional lambda-based multigranularity optical networks, a lambda is always treated as the basic routing unit, resulting in low wavelength utilization. On the basis of Optical Code Division...
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Rate-Based Pacing for Small Buffered Optical Packet-Switched Networks
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
One of the difficulties of Optical Packet-Switched (OPS) networks is buffering optical packets in the network. O(1) reading operation is not possible in the optical domain, because there is no...
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Information Theoretical Analysis of Hierarchical Nano-Optical Systems in the Sub wavelength Regime
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Optical near-field interactions exhibit a hierarchical response, which is one of the most unique attributes of light - matter interactions occurring locally on the nanometer scale. It allows...
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Design and Experimental Demonstration of Novel Optical Router Controller Capable of Asynchronous, Variable-Length Packet Switching and Contention Resolution
October 5, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper proposes the efficient design and implementation of a hierarchical optical router controller supporting asynchronous, variable-length optical packets. A network testbed experiment...
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Optical Tomography From Focus
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
A model and a method providing a 3D reconstruction of a given translucent object from a series of image acquisitions performed with various focus tunings is proposed. The object is imaged by...
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Multicasting in Wireless Sensor Networks
October 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Wireless sensor networks are embedded networks that are highly restricted to energy, bandwidth and processing power. Even though wireless sensor networks operate with limited resources, sensor...
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Quality-of-Transmission-Aware Manycasting Over Optical Burst-Switched Networks
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Many next-generation distributed applications, such as grid computing, require a single source to communicate with a group of destinations. Traditionally, such applications are implemented using...
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DPSK Receiver Design - Optical Filtering Considerations
October 4, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The authors study via simulation the influence of the DPSK decoder Free Spectral Range (FSR) when strong optical filtering is considered for the NRZ and RZ modulation formats and show that larger...
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Optical Multi-Domain Routing
January 12, 2009, 12:00am PST
The Internet is a decentralized set of networks known as domains or Autonomous Systems (ASs), each one managed by a single authority and under a common routing policy. Today's Internet is built by...
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Fast Exact ILP Decompositions for Ring RWA
July 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Wavelength division multiplexing rings are now capable of supporting more than 100 wavelengths over a single fiber. Conventional link and path formulations for the routing and wavelength...
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Plug and Play Optical Nodes: Network Functionalities and Built-In Fiber Characterization Techniques
May 7, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Plug and Play Optical (PPO) nodes may be used to facilitate the deployment of optical networks. PPO nodes must be able to learn about the signal propagation properties of the surrounding optical...
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Dimensioning the Future Pan-European Optical Network With Energy Efficiency Considerations
April 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies the overall energy consumption of a pan-European optical transport network for three different time periods: today and in five and ten years from now. In each time period the...
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Cost vs. Capacity Tradeoff With Shared Mesh Protection in Optical-Bypass-Enabled Backbone Networks
March 29, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Shared mesh protection based on cross-connecting pre-deployed protection subconnections is well suited for the optical-bypass-enabled networks currently being deployed. This scheme poses a...
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Lessons Learned From Implementing a Path Computation Element (PCE) Emulator
February 22, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors developed the first open source Path Computation Element (PCE) emulator, which includes a complete PCEP protocol implementation, network I/O support and support for concurrent path...
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Double-Laser Differential Signaling for Reducing the Effect of Background Radiation in Free-Space Optical Systems
January 31, 2011, 12:00am PST
In order to reduce the impact of background radiation on the performance of terrestrial free-space optical systems, the authors propose to use two laser wavelengths and to perform the data...
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Single-Layer Multigranular Optical Cross-Connect Architecture With Conversion Capability and Enhanced Flexibility
December 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
The rapid advances in WDM technology are expected to bring about tremendous growth in the size of Optical Cross Connects (OXCs). In this context, Multi-Granular OXCs (MG-OXCs) have been suggested...
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Performance of Short-Range Non-Line-of-Sight LED-Based Ultraviolet Communication Receivers
May 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Utilizing an empirical path loss model proposed in the first paper of a two-part series, the bit error rate performance of short-range non-line-of-sight ultraviolet communication receivers is...
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Efficient Utility-Based Bandwidth Adaptation for Multimedia Wireless Networks
July 13, 2006, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors propose an efficient utility-based bandwidth adaptation scheme for multimedia wireless networks. When the network is overloaded the bandwidth of ongoing calls are...
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Blocking and Waveband Assignment in WDM Networks With Limited Reconfigurability
October 8, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors show quantitatively the benefits of using Reconfigurable Optical Add-Drop Multiplexers (ROADMs) with limited tunable transponders in all-optical networks. They compare...
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Transponder Wavelength Assignment in WDM Networks
May 19, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors propose a heuristic algorithm for the assignment of wavelengths to the transponders at a reconfigurable node in a WDM Network. They show that network performance is improved with their...
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Multihopping and Waveband Assignment in Limited Reconfigurable WDM Networks
May 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In reconfigurable optical networks, the lightpaths are dynamically adjusted by the use of Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexers (ROADMs). Reconfiguration also requires tunable transmitters...
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Diversity-Multiplexing Trade-Off in Coherent Free-Space Optical Systems With Multiple Receivers
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
In this paper, from an information theory point of view, the authors investigate the performance of a coherent Free Space Optical (FSO) communication system with multiple receives apertures over...
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Economics of Time and Wavelength Domain Multiplexed Passive Optical Networks
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Passive Optical Networks (PONs) are being widely considered as a means to implement Fiber-To-The Home (FTTH) and deliver broadband access to business and home users. However, technical and...
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Business Prospects of Wide-Scale Deployment of Free Space Optical Technology as a Last-Mile Solution: A Techno-Economic Evaluation
June 14, 2007, 12:00am PDT
A technoeconomic evaluation of the business prospects of a wide-scale deployment of Free Space Optical (FSO) technology as a last-mile solution is carried out. The evaluation is based on a...
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Cost Effectiveness of Protection Schemes for IP-Over-WDM Networks
March 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors analyze the cost of IP-over-WDM networks employing survivable traffic grooming protection. The network cost is evaluated in terms of total number of optical transceivers in the...
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