Abstract— We explore network design principles for nextgeneration all-optical wide-area networks, employing light-trail technology. Light-trail [1] is a light-wave circuit that a...
Srivatsan Balasubramanian, Ahmed E. Kamal, Arun K....
Next generation applications and architectures (for example, Grids) are driving radical changes in the nature of traffic, service models, technology, and cost, creating opportunit...
Tal Lavian, Joe Mambretti, Doug Cutrell, Howard J....
This paper presents a novel system architecture applicable to high-performance and flexible transport data processing which includes complex protocol operation and a network contr...
— Cache and Forward (CNF) Architecture is a novel architecture aimed at delivering content efficiently to potentially large number of intermittently connected mobile hosts. It us...
—This paper proposes a new switching architecture to be used in all optical networks. The proposed switch, M-B-Quadro switch, is extended from an original 2 x 2 two-stage multi-b...