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A Survey of Survivability in Multi-Domain Optical Networks
Jan 2010
Network survivability is becoming an important issue and a topical subject in WDM optical mesh networks. Many works have studied network survivability. However, few works have focused on...
Provided by IRISA
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Optical and Higher Layer Performance Monitoring in Photonic Networks: Progress and Challenges
Feb 2009
Optical Performance Monitoring (OPM) and Optical Network Management (ONM) are essential in building a reliable and high quality of service system as the optical transmission system continues to...
Provided by Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET)
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160 Gb/s Time-Domain Channel Extraction/ Insertion and All-Optical Logic Operations Exploiting a Single PPLN Waveguide
Oct 2009
160 Gb/s all-optical signal processing is demonstrated exploiting pump depletion in addition to sum and difference frequency generation (SFG/DFG) in a single Periodically Poled Lithium-Niobate...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Optical Interconnection Networks Based on Microring Resonators
Jul 2010
Interconnection networks must transport an always increasing information density and connect a rising number of processing units. Electronic technologies have been able to sustain the traffic...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Broadband Municipal Optical Networks in Greece: A Suitable Business Model
Mar 2009
This paper proposes a business model for the optimal exploitation of the currently developing broadband metropolitan area networks in Greece. Having recorded and examined relevant international...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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White Papers
Performances of Label Switched Path Dynamic Provisioning in GMPLS Networks
Jul 2010
Given the fact that control channels in GMPLS/MPLS-TE networks use packet based forwarding, and the processing of control messages may be subject to various factors, the provisioning delay of an...
Provided by Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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White Papers
Performance of Translucent Optical Networks Under Dynamic Traffic and Uncertain Physical-Layer Information
Apr 2010
This paper investigates the performance of translucent Optical Transport Networks (OTNs) under different traffic and knowledge conditions, varying from perfect knowledge to drifts and...
Provided by Technical University of Catalonia
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White Papers
Path Monitoring for Restoration Functions in Optical Packet-Switched Networks
Jul 2010
The increasing demand in the Internet network for real-time multimedia data traffic with high quality is pushing the limits of existing network structure. Optical Packet Switching (OPS) is...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Transparent High-Data-Rate Optical Transmission Through Broadband Hitless Bypass Switches for Chip-Scale Optical Networks
Apr 2010
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...
Provided by Optical Society of America
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White Papers
Energy Efficient Optical Burst Switched (OBS) Networks
Jun 2010
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has a profound impact on the economy and the environment. A study estimated that the Internet equipment consumed roughly 8 % of the total energy...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Capacity and Delay Analysis of Next-Generation Passive Optical Networks (NG-PONs)
Jan 2010
Building on the Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) and Gigabit PON (GPON) standards, Next-Generation (NG) PONs provide increased data rates, split ratios, wavelengths counts, and fiber...
Provided by Arizona State University
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White Papers
Cross-Layer Traffic Grooming for Optical Networks With Hybrid Layer-One and Layer-Zero Signal Regeneration
Jan 2010
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...
Provided by Optical Society of America
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White Papers
Performance Analysis of Network Operating Systems in Local Area Networks
Jan 2008
With the increased uses of computer networks, the performance analysis of networks is becoming critical. Businesses need to transfer more data at the minimum amount of time in their LANs and WANs....
Provided by Unitec
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White Papers
Reed-Solomon Turbo Product Codes for Optical Communications: FromCode Optimization to Decoder Design
Apr 2008
Turbo Product Codes (TPCs) are an attractive solution to improve link budgets and reduce systems costs by relaxing the requirements on expensive optical devices in high capacity optical transport...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
Coarse Optical Circuit Switching by Default, Rerouting Over Circuits for Adaptation
Dec 2008
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...
Provided by Optical Society of America
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White Papers
An Integrated View on Monitoring and Compensation for Dynamic Optical Networks: From Management to Physical Layer
Dec 2008
A vertical perspective, ranging from management and routing to physical layer options, concerning dynamic network Monitoring and Compensation of impairments (M&C), is given. Feasibility,...
Provided by Vienna University of Technology
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A Performance Study of an Optical Burst Switched Network With Dynamic Simultaneous Link Possesion
Jan 2010
In Optical Burst Switched (OBS) networks a burst may occupy a wavelength on one or more links as it travels through the network. In the literature, OBS networks have been analyzed assuming that...
Provided by North Carolina State University
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White Papers
Reactive and Proactive Routing in Labelled Optical Burst Switching Networks
Feb 2008
Optical burst switching architectures without buffering capabilities are sensitive to burst congestion. The existence of a few highly congested links may seriously aggravate the network...
Provided by Institution of Engineering and Technology
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White Papers
Does Header Length Affect Performance in Optical Burst Switched Networks?
Jan 2010
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...
Provided by Optical Society of America
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White Papers
Design Exploration of Optical Interconnection Networks for Chip Multiprocessors
Sep 2008
The Network-on-Chip (NoC) paradigm has emerged as a promising solution for providing connectivity among the increasing number of cores that get integrated into both Systems-on Chip (SoC) and Chip...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Optical Computing
Feb 2009
The authors give an overview of a number of such optical computing architectures, including descriptions of the type of hardware commonly used in optical computing, as well as some of the...
Provided by National University Of Ireland
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White Papers
Multi-Wavelengths Optical Switching and Tunable Filters Using Dynamic Superimposed Photorefractive Bragg Grating
May 2008
The authors present a new scheme for all optical multi-wavelengths switching and filtering using photorefractive materials to route optical signals without converting to electronic state. For this...
Provided by Amirkabir University of Technology
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White Papers
Triple Play Services Over Ethernet-Passive Optical Networks
Feb 2010
In today's internet enabled world, customers increasingly require voice, video and data services. Combined, these are termed Triple Play services. This paper focuses on EPON as a solution to this...
Provided by Islamia University of Bahawalpur Pakistan
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White Papers
Using Just-in-Time to Enable Optical Networking for Grids
Jan 2010
This paper presents an overview of the Just-In-Time (JIT) control plane and GridJIT service that has been developed for optical networks and describes several related projects. The authors believe...
Provided by MCNC Research and Development Institute
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White Papers
Packet-OTN: The Transformation Continues
Apr 2009
In this paper, TPACK addresses the evolution of the "P-OTN" or Packet Optical Transport Network market. That is to say, packet transport networks built upon the ITU T's established set of OTN...
Provided by T|PACK
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White Papers
Terrestrial Free Space LDPC Coded MIMO Optical Link
Oct 2009
In the present paper investigates study of a terrestrial, line-of-sight Free Space Optical (FSO) communication link using non-repetitive MIMO scheme with On OFF Keying (OOK) signal over turbulent...
Provided by Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
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White Papers
HAIR: Hierarchical Architecture for Internet Routing
Dec 2009
In the light of recent interest in re-designing the Internet, authors introduce HAIR, a routing architecture that tackles the problem of routing table growth, restricts the visibility of routing...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Network Routing Topology Inference from End-to-End Measurements
Feb 2008
Inference of the routing topology and link performance from a node to a set of other nodes is an important component of network monitoring and application design. This paper proposes a general...
Provided by Yale University
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White Papers
Formal Modeling of BeeAdHoc: A Bio-inspired Mobile Ad Hoc Network Routing Protocol
May 2008
Design and development of routing protocols for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) is an active area of research. The standard practice among researchers working in this emerging domain is to...
Provided by National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
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White Papers
A Proposed Scheme for Epidemic Routing with Active Curing for Opportunistic Networks
Jan 2008
Opportunistic networking is emerging as a technique to exploit chance encounters among mobile nodes, and is distinct from previously studied behaviors found in sensor and ad hoc networking...
Provided by Boston University
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White Papers
The FREEDM Architecture of Fault Tolerant Network Routing through Software Overlays
Apr 2009
Control decisions of intelligent devices in critical infrastructure can have a significant impact on human life and the environment. Insuring that the appropriate data is available is crucial in...
Provided by North Carolina State University
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White Papers
Toward Scalable Routing Experiments with Real-Time Network Simulation
Mar 2008
The ability to conduct accurate and realistic experiments is critical in furthering the research and development of network routing protocols. Existing framework for routing experiments is found...
Provided by Florida International University
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White Papers
Long-Reach Passive Optical Networks
Jun 2009
With the advances in optical technology, the span of a broadband access network using Passive Optical Network (PON) technology can be increased from today's standard of 20 km to 100 km or higher....
Provided by UC Regents
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White Papers
Dynamic Impairment Aware Networking for Transparent Mesh Optical Networks: Activities of EU Project DICONET
Jun 2008
In order to realize the core networks of the future utilizing the translucent or transparent optical networks the DICONET1 vision is presented in this paper. Providing ultra high-speed end-to-end...
Provided by Athens Information Technology
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White Papers
Challenges and Opportunities in Advanced Optical Networking
Mar 2008
Optical communication systems and networks will continue to play a significant role in the development and deployment of emerging network infrastructures. These networks are expected to support...
Provided by Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
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White Papers
How Much Can All-Optical Networking Benefit From Slow Light?
Nov 2008
Network designers have dreamed of all-optical networks since the late 1990s, due to their transparency to transmitted signals, superior configurability and scalability, and potentially much higher...
Provided by SPIE
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White Papers
Optical Burst and Packet Switching
Aug 2009
This chapter discusses optical burst and packet switching technologies in detail and examines their roles in the future Internet. Authors will first discuss the role of optical circuit, burst, and...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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White Papers
A Dynamic Impairment Aware Networking Solution for Transparent Mesh Optical Networks
May 2009
Core networks of the future will have a translucent and eventually transparent optical structure. Ultra high-speed end-to-end connectivity with high quality of service and high reliability will be...
Provided by Athens Information Technology
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White Papers
Dynamic Routing Algorithms in Transparent Optical Networks
Jan 2010
Today's telecommunication networks are configured statically. Whenever a connection is established, the customer has permanent access to it. However, it is observed that usually the connection is...
Provided by Zuse-Institut Berlin
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White Papers
Seamless MPLS
Jan 2010
Just when one thought that MPLS has peaked, that the pace of innovation has slowed, and that MPLS is getting boring, two promising new developments - namely "MPLS in the access" and "seamless...
Provided by Juniper Networks
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White Papers
OBGPC: An Improved Path-Vector Protocol for Multi-Domain Optical Networks
Jan 2009
One of the essential components for the dynamic provisioning of lightpaths across multiple domains is the Routing and Wavelength Assignment (RWA) strategy adopted. The consolidation that...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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White Papers
Inter-Domain Routing in Optical Networks With Wavelength Converters
Jul 2010
With the increasing deployment of Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) optical networks, the need for advanced lightpath provisioning algorithms and protocols in a multi-domain setting is...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Dynamic Routing of Reliability-Differentiated Connections in Optical Burst Switched Networks
May 2008
Optical Burst Switching (OBS) is one of the most promising next-generation all-optical data transport paradigms. As networks become increasingly distributed and autonomic, Optical Burst Switching...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Scheduling Design and Analysis for End-to-End Heterogeneous Flows in an Avionics Network
Mar 2011
Avionics Full DupleX (AFDX) Switched Ethernet technology provides a deterministic network with guaranteed service to support real-time data transmission in real-world avionics applications. The...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Pipelining Packet Scheduling in a Low Latency Optical Packet Switch
Mar 2011
Optical switching architectures with electronic buffers have been proposed to tackle the lack of optical Random Access Memories (RAM). Out of these architectures, the OpCut switch achieves low...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Two Samples are Enough: Opportunistic Flow-level Latency Estimation Using NetFlow
Dec 2009
The inherent support in routers (SNMP counters or NetFlow) is not sufficient to diagnose performance problems in IP networks, especially for flow-specific problems where the aggregate behavior...
Provided by Purdue University
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White Papers
Designing Packet Buffers for Router Linecards
Mar 2008
Internet routers and Ethernet switches contain packet buffers to hold packets during times of congestion. Packet buffers are at the heart of every packet switch and router, which have a combined...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
Router Designs for Elastic Buffer On-Chip Networks
Nov 2009
This paper explores the design space of Elastic Buffer (EB) routers by evaluating three representative designs. The authors propose an enhanced two-stage EB router which maximizes throughput by...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Evaluating Bufferless Flow Control for On-Chip Networks
Mar 2010
With the emergence of on-chip networks, the power consumed by router buffers has become a primary concern. Bufferless flow control addresses this issue by removing router buffers, and handles...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
Hybrid FRR/p-Cycle MPLS Link Protection Design
Feb 2011
Survivable MPLS technologies are crucial in ensuring reliable communication services. The Fast ReRoute (FRR) mechanism has been standardized to achieve fast local repair of Label Switched Paths...
Provided by North Carolina State University
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White Papers
Planar C-Band Antenna with Electronically Controllable Switched Beams
Jan 2009
The design, manufacturing, and measurements of a switchable-beam antenna at 3.5GHz for WLL or Wimax base station antennas in planar technology are presented. This antenna performs a discrete beam...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
A 2.56 Gb/s Soft RS (255,239) Decoder Chip for Optical Communication Systems
Aug 2011
Due to the increasing uncertainty of data for higher transmission rate, the Forward Error Correction (FEC) devices need to provide more powerful error correcting capability for optical...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
100GbE and Beyond for Warehouse Scale Computing Interconnects
Oct 2011
Increasing broadband penetration in the last few years has resulted in a dramatic growth in innovative, bandwidth-intensive applications that have been embraced by the consumers. Coupled with this...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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White Papers
Internet Optometry: Assessing the Broken Glasses in Internet Reachability
Nov 2009
Reachability is thought of as the most basic service provided by today's Internet. Unfortunately, this does not imply that the community has a deep understanding of it. Researchers and operators...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
10 Lessons From 10 Years of Measuring and Modeling the Internet's Autonomous Systems
Jun 2011
Formally, the Internet inter-domain routing system is a collection of networks, their policies, peering relationships and organizational affiliations, and the addresses they advertize. It also...
Provided by University of Adelaide
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White Papers
Flexible Human Behavior Analysis Framework for Video Surveillance Applications
Jan 2010
The authors study a flexible framework for semantic analysis of human motion from surveillance video. Successful trajectory estimation and human-body modeling facilitate the semantic analysis of...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
Sketch-Based Spatial Queries for the Retrieval of Human Locomotion Patterns in Smart Environments
Jul 2009
A system for retrieving video sequences created by tracking humans in a smart environment, by using spatial queries, is presented. Sketches made with a pointing device on the floor layout of the...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
Using a Queue to De-Amortize Cuckoo Hashing in Hardware
Sep 2007
Cuckoo hashing combines multiple-choice hashing with the power to move elements, providing hash tables with very high space utilization and low probability of overflow. However, inserting a new...
Provided by Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
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White Papers
Using Non-Adaptive Group Testing to Construct Spy Agent Routes
Jan 2008
The authors consider a network of remote agent platforms that are tested by roaming spy agents in order to identify those that are malicious, based on the outcome of each agent. It is shown that,...
Provided by University of London
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White Papers
On the Cost of Supporting Mobility and Multihoming
May 2010
As the Internet has evolved and grown, an increasing number of nodes (hosts or autonomous systems) have become multihomed, i.e., a node is connected to more than one network. Multihoming can be...
Provided by Boston University
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White Papers
Control Plane Issues in Multilayer Traffic Engineering
Oct 2008
Multilayer traffic engineering utilizes functionality in multiple network layers to optimize network performance and resource usage. For IP-over-optical networks in particular, automatic optical...
Provided by Ghent University
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White Papers
Plug and Play Optical Nodes: Network Functionalities and Built-In Fiber Characterization Techniques
May 2007
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...
Provided by Optical Society of America
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White Papers
Dimensioning the Future Pan-European Optical Network With Energy Efficiency Considerations
Apr 2011
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...
Provided by Optical Society of America
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White Papers
Load Balancing for Holding-Time-Aware Dynamic Traffic Grooming
Mar 2010
In this paper, a new algorithm for dynamic traffic grooming is introduced. It considers the holding-time of the connections and it aims at balancing the load among existing lightpaths to avoid the...
Provided by Technische Universitat Braunschweig
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White Papers
A Backward-Compatible Inter-Domain Multipath Routing Framework
Mar 2011
The authors present a framework to facilitate the inter-domain multipath routing for carrier networks that are based on circuit switching technologies, without significant changes to the existing...
Provided by Technische Universitat Braunschweig
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Podcasts
Talk TechNet With Keith Combs and Matt Hester: Yuri Diogenes on Forefront Threat Management Gateway
Mar 2011
Talk TechNet is all about discussing topics and trends in the world of IT Professionals. In this podcast, the speaker discusses about how to use Forefront TMG 2010 as a Secure Web Gateway.
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
1xM Packet-Switched Router Based on the PPM Header Address for All-Optical WDM Networks
Aug 2009
This paper presents all-optical 1xM router architecture for simultaneous multiple-wavelength packet routing, without the need for wavelength conversion. The packet header address is based on the...
Provided by University of Oxford
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White Papers
Path Protection in WDM Networks With Quality of Transmission Limitations
Jun 2010
The authors consider path protection in the Routing and Wavelength Assignment (RWA) problem for impairment constrained WDM optical networks. The proposed multi-cost RWA algorithms select the...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Podcasts
TechNet Radio: IT Time - Windows Phone 7 Overview (Part 2 of 3)
Mar 2011
In this podcast, the speaker explains the Office hub, OneNote, Excel and some collaboration features found with SkyDrive and SharePoint as well as the Web browsing experience, pictures, music and...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Distributed PC Based Routers: Bottleneck Analysis and Architecture Proposal
Mar 2008
Recent research in the different functional areas of modern routers has made proposals that can greatly increase the efficiency of these machines. Most of these proposals can be implemented...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Trie Partitioning in Distributed PC Based Routers
Dec 2008
Recent research in PC based routers has proposed a distributed architecture. Such architecture poses several challenges in the areas of scalability, robustness, efficiency of routing, latency and...
Provided by Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
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White Papers
Blocking and Waveband Assignment in WDM Networks With Limited Reconfigurability
Oct 2007
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...
Provided by Optical Society of America
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White Papers
Blocking Analysis of Limited-Reconfigurable Optical Networks
Sep 2007
The blocking performance of limited-reconfigurable all-optical networks is investigated in this paper. Reconfigurability is achieved by Reconfigurable Optical Add-Drop Multiplexers (ROADMs) and...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Transponder Wavelength Assignment in WDM Networks
May 2008
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...
Provided by Optical Society of America
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White Papers
Multihopping and Waveband Assignment in Limited Reconfigurable WDM Networks
May 2009
In reconfigurable optical networks, the lightpaths are dynamically adjusted by the use of Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexers (ROADMs). Reconfiguration also requires tunable transmitters...
Provided by Optical Society of America
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White Papers
Optimal Waveband Switching in Optical Ring Networks
May 2010
Waveband switching saves port costs in optical cross-connects by grouping together a set of consecutive wavelengths and switching them as a single waveband. Previous work has focused on either...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Uniform Waveband Switching in WDM Mesh Networks
Jun 2010
The cost of an optical network in Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (WDM) networks can be reduced by using Optical Add/Drop Multiplexers (OADMs) which allow traffic to pass through without the need...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Performance of Optical Networks With Limited Reconfigurability
Dec 2009
The authors investigate the blocking performance of all-optical reconfigurable networks with constraints on reconfiguration brought by Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexers (ROADMs) and...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
A Stability Result for Switched Systems With Multiple Equilibria
Jun 2010
This paper studies stability properties of general switched systems with multiple distinct equilibria. It is shown that, if the dwell time of the switching events is greater than a certain lower...
Provided by University of Illinois
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White Papers
A System Performance Approach to OSNR Optimization in Optical Networks
Oct 2009
This paper studies a constrained Optical Signal-to-Noise Ratio (OSNR) optimization problem in optical networks from the perspective of system performance. A system optimization problem is...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Design Exploration of Optical Interconnection Networks for Chip Multiprocessors
Sep 2008
The Network-on-Chip (NoC) paradigm has emerged as a promising solution for providing connectivity among the increasing number of cores that get integrated into both Systems-on Chip (SoC) and Chip...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Optical Computing
Feb 2009
The authors give an overview of a number of such optical computing architectures, including descriptions of the type of hardware commonly used in optical computing, as well as some of the...
Provided by National University Of Ireland
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White Papers
Multi-Wavelengths Optical Switching and Tunable Filters Using Dynamic Superimposed Photorefractive Bragg Grating
May 2008
The authors present a new scheme for all optical multi-wavelengths switching and filtering using photorefractive materials to route optical signals without converting to electronic state. For this...
Provided by Amirkabir University of Technology
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White Papers
Triple Play Services Over Ethernet-Passive Optical Networks
Feb 2010
In today's internet enabled world, customers increasingly require voice, video and data services. Combined, these are termed Triple Play services. This paper focuses on EPON as a solution to this...
Provided by Islamia University of Bahawalpur Pakistan
-
White Papers
Using Just-in-Time to Enable Optical Networking for Grids
Jan 2010
This paper presents an overview of the Just-In-Time (JIT) control plane and GridJIT service that has been developed for optical networks and describes several related projects. The authors believe...
Provided by MCNC Research and Development Institute
-
White Papers
Packet-OTN: The Transformation Continues
Apr 2009
In this paper, TPACK addresses the evolution of the "P-OTN" or Packet Optical Transport Network market. That is to say, packet transport networks built upon the ITU T's established set of OTN...
Provided by T|PACK
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White Papers
Terrestrial Free Space LDPC Coded MIMO Optical Link
Oct 2009
In the present paper investigates study of a terrestrial, line-of-sight Free Space Optical (FSO) communication link using non-repetitive MIMO scheme with On OFF Keying (OOK) signal over turbulent...
Provided by Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
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White Papers
HAIR: Hierarchical Architecture for Internet Routing
Dec 2009
In the light of recent interest in re-designing the Internet, authors introduce HAIR, a routing architecture that tackles the problem of routing table growth, restricts the visibility of routing...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Network Routing Topology Inference from End-to-End Measurements
Feb 2008
Inference of the routing topology and link performance from a node to a set of other nodes is an important component of network monitoring and application design. This paper proposes a general...
Provided by Yale University
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White Papers
Formal Modeling of BeeAdHoc: A Bio-inspired Mobile Ad Hoc Network Routing Protocol
May 2008
Design and development of routing protocols for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) is an active area of research. The standard practice among researchers working in this emerging domain is to...
Provided by National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
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White Papers
A Proposed Scheme for Epidemic Routing with Active Curing for Opportunistic Networks
Jan 2008
Opportunistic networking is emerging as a technique to exploit chance encounters among mobile nodes, and is distinct from previously studied behaviors found in sensor and ad hoc networking...
Provided by Boston University
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White Papers
The FREEDM Architecture of Fault Tolerant Network Routing through Software Overlays
Apr 2009
Control decisions of intelligent devices in critical infrastructure can have a significant impact on human life and the environment. Insuring that the appropriate data is available is crucial in...
Provided by North Carolina State University
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White Papers
Toward Scalable Routing Experiments with Real-Time Network Simulation
Mar 2008
The ability to conduct accurate and realistic experiments is critical in furthering the research and development of network routing protocols. Existing framework for routing experiments is found...
Provided by Florida International University
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White Papers
Long-Reach Passive Optical Networks
Jun 2009
With the advances in optical technology, the span of a broadband access network using Passive Optical Network (PON) technology can be increased from today's standard of 20 km to 100 km or higher....
Provided by UC Regents
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White Papers
Dynamic Impairment Aware Networking for Transparent Mesh Optical Networks: Activities of EU Project DICONET
Jun 2008
In order to realize the core networks of the future utilizing the translucent or transparent optical networks the DICONET1 vision is presented in this paper. Providing ultra high-speed end-to-end...
Provided by Athens Information Technology
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White Papers
Challenges and Opportunities in Advanced Optical Networking
Mar 2008
Optical communication systems and networks will continue to play a significant role in the development and deployment of emerging network infrastructures. These networks are expected to support...
Provided by Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
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White Papers
How Much Can All-Optical Networking Benefit From Slow Light?
Nov 2008
Network designers have dreamed of all-optical networks since the late 1990s, due to their transparency to transmitted signals, superior configurability and scalability, and potentially much higher...
Provided by SPIE
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White Papers
Optical Burst and Packet Switching
Aug 2009
This chapter discusses optical burst and packet switching technologies in detail and examines their roles in the future Internet. Authors will first discuss the role of optical circuit, burst, and...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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White Papers
A Dynamic Impairment Aware Networking Solution for Transparent Mesh Optical Networks
May 2009
Core networks of the future will have a translucent and eventually transparent optical structure. Ultra high-speed end-to-end connectivity with high quality of service and high reliability will be...
Provided by Athens Information Technology
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White Papers
Dynamic Routing Algorithms in Transparent Optical Networks
Jan 2010
Today's telecommunication networks are configured statically. Whenever a connection is established, the customer has permanent access to it. However, it is observed that usually the connection is...
Provided by Zuse-Institut Berlin
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White Papers
Seamless MPLS
Jan 2010
Just when one thought that MPLS has peaked, that the pace of innovation has slowed, and that MPLS is getting boring, two promising new developments - namely "MPLS in the access" and "seamless...
Provided by Juniper Networks
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White Papers
MPLS-TP Based Packet Transport Networks: Delivering New Value Through Next-Generation Transport Networks
Nov 2009
In today's challenging economic times, consumers are trying to minimize their expenses by spending money on the right products and services. For service providers, meeting these customer...
Provided by UTStarcom
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White Papers
MPLS: Paving the Path to Unified Communications
Aug 2009
MPLS is not new technology, but because its latency rate is so low, it is the subject of renewed interest as the obvious protocol for use with newer, high-bandwidth applications MPLS has largely...
Provided by Bell
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White Papers
The Search for the Right Packet Transport Technology - MPLS or PBB-TE (PBT)
Dec 2008
In this paper the authors go beyond the marketing hype and look closely at the underlying concepts behind MPLS and PBB-TE. The authors do this in order to evaluate if there are any fundamental...
Provided by ECI Telecom
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White Papers
Evolving Your Network With Metro Ethernet and MPLS VPNs: How to Determine the Best Fit for Your Enterprise
May 2010
MPLS VPNs are best known for their flexibility to handle many different protocols and operate across a wide range of commonly available connection speeds that are typically used in branch office...
Provided by CenturyTel
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White Papers
MPLS WAN Explorer: Enterprise Network Management Visibility Through the MPLS VPN "Cloud"
Feb 2009
Increasing numbers of enterprises are outsourcing their backbone WAN routing to MPLS VPN Service Providers. MPLS VPN WAN services have been gaining in market traction against Frame Relay due to...
Provided by Packet Design
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White Papers
MPLS Private Networking: Connecting to the Cloud
Dec 2009
Large enterprises have been installing MPLS networks for years and claim that this has now spread to the SMB market. Growth was reported to be down to a number of factors including a rise in the...
Provided by Griffin Internet
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White Papers
HughesNet High Availability VPN
Sep 2009
The access network is the primary source of network problems in a distributed enterprise network. A HughesNet High Availability VPN mitigates failures in the access network by using truly...
Provided by Hughes Network Systems
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White Papers
HughesNet Optimized VPN
Dec 2008
In today's highly distributed enterprise, data networking has taken on increased importance as it reaches further across and deeper into organizations, impacting almost all workers as they access...
Provided by Hughes Network Systems
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Whitepapers
Identification of the Cut-Off Scale of OBS Ingress Traffic
Oct 2008
Multiscaling traffic in Optical Burst Switching networks yields to considerably higher loss rates than monoscale traffic. The assembly policy at the edge of an OBS network can change the...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Smart Spanning Tree Bridging for Carrier Ethernets
Oct 2008
Carrier Ethernet WAN transport services are taking off rapidly and the simplicity, ubiquity, and plug-and-play features of Ethernet are some key success factors. Originally, these transport...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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White Papers
Faint High Orbit Debris Observations With ISON Optical Network
Sep 2009
New cooperation for global monitoring of space objects at high orbits, International Scientific Optical Network (ISON), is appeared under auspices of the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics...
Provided by Russian Academy of Sciences
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White Papers
Cost Minimization Planning for Passive Optical Networks
Jan 2008
Passive Optical Networks (PON) can be deployed in forms of Ethernet PONs, Gigabit-capable PONs (G-PON), or WDM PONs. Much research on PON has focused on Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation (DBA) among...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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White Papers
Delay and Throughput Performance of Optical WCDMA Network with Code Sharing
Oct 2009
All-optical networking concept promises an information transfer rate of terabits per seconds by requiring that no optoelectronic conversion occurs within the network, but only to its periphery....
Provided by Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS
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White Papers
Economic Analysis of IP/Optical Network Architectures
Jan 2010
A Re-configurable Optical Network (RON) potentially offers service providers opportunities to optimize their IP network architectures. Large IP backbones are typically deployed directly over...
Provided by AT&T Labs-Research
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White Papers
Comparison of Overlay and Peer Models in IP over Optical Networks
Dec 2008
This paper study's the performance of connection establishment of Label Switched Paths (LSPs) under two different interconnection models in IP over optical networks. Authors show that the add/drop...
Provided by Nanyang Technological University
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White Papers
Dynamic Provisioning System for Bandwidth-Scalable Core Optical Network
Jun 2009
This paper describe the architecture of PHAROS (Petabit Highly-Agile Robust Optical System), developed under the DARPA CORONET program. PHAROS provides traffic engineering, resource management and...
Provided by BBN Technologies
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White Papers
Guidelines for Connection-Level Performance Simulation of Optical Networks
Jan 2010
Simulation of optical networks that set up and tear down connections dynamically involves defining the network and traffic model as well as configuring the simulator itself, to investigate a...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
New Approach to Optical Networks Security: Attack-Aware Routing and Wavelength Assignment
Aug 2009
Security issues and attack management in transparent WDM (Wavelength Division Multiplexing) optical networks has become of prime importance to network operators due to the high data rates involved...
Provided by University of Zagreb
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White Papers
Supporting Differentiated Survivability Services in WDM Optical Networks
Aug 2008
Optical networks are currently widely employed to support a variety of telecommunications and other applications. In order to provide the increased bandwidth needed by the existing and emerging...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
