We provide a comprehensive survey of packet-switched ring metro WDM networks. We first
review current standardization and testbed activities, then we provide a categorization of …

The state of the art of modern lightwave system design Recent advances in lightwave
technology have led to an explosion of high-speed global information systems throughout …

This paper presents a comprehensive study of contention-resolution schemes in a
multiwavelength optical packet-switched network. This investigation aims to provide a …

We consider the problem of interconnecting a set of customer sites using bidirectional
SONET rings of equal capacity. Each site is assigned to exactly one ring and a special ring …

The wide deployment of wavelength-division multiplexing technology and new transmission
techniques have resulted in significant increases in the transmission capacity in optical …

This paper investigates contention resolution schemes for optical packet switching networks
from an end-to-end perspective, where the combined exploitation of both core routers and …

Photonic slot routing (PSR) has been proposed as an approach to implement an all-optical
packet-switched network in a manner which is scalable and not overly complex. In PSR …

FLAMINGO (flexible multiwavelength optical local access network supporting multimedia
broadband services) is a research project supported by the Dutch Technology Foundation …

In the absence of a cost-effective technology for storing optical signals, emerging optical
packet switched (OPS) networks are expected to have severely limited buffering capability …

In recent years, with the rapid growth of the Internet, the bandwidth demand for data traffic is
exploding. Optical networks based on wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) technology …