Sirpent: a high-performance internetworking approach
SIGCOMM '89 Symposium proceedings on Communications architectures & protocols
Quality-of-service in packet networks: basic mechanisms and directions
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking - Special issue on Internet telephony
Journal of High Speed Networks - Special issue on optical networking
Optical burst switching (OBS) - a new paradigm for an optical Internet
Journal of High Speed Networks - Special issue on optical networking
Providing guaranteed services without per flow management
Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Computer Networks
Flexible IP Encapsulation for IP over ATM with ATM Shortcuts
ICON '00 Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Networks
Performance Evaluation of ATM Shortcut Connections in Overlayed IP/ATM Networks
Performance Evaluation of ATM Shortcut Connections in Overlayed IP/ATM Networks
Granular differentiated queueing services for QoS: structure and cost model
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Per-domain packet scale rate guarantee for expedited forwarding
IWQoS'03 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Quality of service
All-Optical Network Consortium-ultrafast TDM networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Optical packet switching with multi-optical-codes label
ICAIT '08 Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Advanced Infocomm Technology
A hierarchical networking architecture based on new switching address
ICAIT '08 Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Advanced Infocomm Technology
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All-optical packet switching (AOPS) technology is essential to fully utilize the tremendous bandwidth provided by advanced optical communication techniques through forwarding packets in optical domain for the next generation network. However, long packet headers and other complex operations such as table lookup and packet header re-writing still have to be processed electronically for lack of cost-effective optical processing techniques. This not only increases system complexity but also limits packet forwarding speed due to optical-electronic-optical conversion. Lots of work of improving optical processing techniques to realize AOPS is reported in the literature. Differently, this paper proposes a new networking structure to facilitate AOPS realization and support various existing networks through simplifying networking operations. This structure only requires an AOPS node to process a short packet header to forward packets across it with neither table lookup nor header re-writing. Furthermore, it moves high layer addressing issues from packet forwarding mechanisms of routers. Consequently, any changes in addressing schemes such as address space extension do not require changes in the AOPS nodes. It can also support both connection-oriented and connectionless services to carry various types of traffic such as ATM and IP traffic. This structure is mainly based on the hierarchical source routing approach. The analytical results show that average packet header sizes are still acceptable even for long paths consisting of many nodes each of which has a large number of output ports.