Optical networks: a practical perspective
Optical networks: a practical perspective
Metropolitan area packet-switched WDM networks: A survey on ring systems
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
Advances in photonic packet switching: an overview
IEEE Communications Magazine
The application of optical packet switching in future communication networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
The perspective of optical packet switching in IP dominant backbone and metropolitan networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
All-optical packet switching for metropolitan area networks: opportunities and challenges
IEEE Communications Magazine
Ethernet OAM: key enabler for carrier class metro ethernet services
IEEE Communications Magazine
HORNET: a packet-over-WDM multiple access metropolitan area ring network
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
RingO: an experimental WDM optical packet network for metro applications
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
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Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) are considered one of the best arenas for an early introduction of optical packet switching technologies. However, there is still no clear definition of how these technologies should be exploited in the design of innovative MANs. In this paper we consider different architectures that have been studied in the framework of the European Network of Excellence e-Photon/ONe and analyze their advantages and limitations. The main contribution of this work is the proposal of an analytical framework to compare these architectures in terms of resource demand when dimensioning them for a given traffic matrix and, from this analysis, discuss issues and trade-offs arising in the design of optical packet MANs.