A Design for an Internet Router with a Digital Optical Data Plane

This paper presents a complete design for an optical Internet router based on the component steps required for Internet protocol (IP) packet forwarding. Implementations of hop count decrement and header matching are integrated with a simulation-based approach to variable-length packet traffic mergin...

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Main Authors: Joe Touch, Joseph Bannister, Stephen Suryaputra, Alan E. Willner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-02-01
Series:Applied Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/7/2/143