All-Optical Network Coding
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Authors
Manley, Eric D.
Deogun, Jitender S.
Xu, Lisong
Alexander, Dennis R.
Issue Date
2010-04
Type
Article
Language
en_US
Keywords
All-optical networks , Network coding
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Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the application of network coding to all-optical networks from both the algorithmic and infrastructural perspectives. We study the effectiveness of using network coding for optical-layer dedicated protection of
multicast traffic which provides robustness against link failures in the network. We present a heuristic for solving this problem
and compare it with both inefficient optimal methods and non-network coding approaches. Our experiments show that
our heuristic provides near optimal performance while significantly outperforming existing approaches for dedicated multicast
protection. We also propose architectures for specialized all-optical circuits capable of performing the processing required for
network coding and show how these devices can be effectively deployed in an all-optical multicast network.
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Citation
IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, 2(4):175-191