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Performance of a Distributed Scheduling Protocol for TWIN

Overview This paper discusses a scheduling mechanism for a new network architecture (TWIN) that provides arbitrary capacity up to a wavelength to any source-destination pair as needed, without optical-to-electronic conversion. The network emulates ultra-fast switching in the passive network core through the use of ultra-fast wavelength tunable lasers at the network edge. This architecture is suitable for any end-to-end traffic load, from static or quasi-static load (Sonet/SDH), to highly dynamic (IP) load. The key enabler of this architecture is a scheduling mechanism that schedules transmissions for maximal network throughput. The paper proposes a distributed scheduling scheme that is randomized for highly dynamic load but learns to adjust for quasi-static load.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Lucent Technologies	File Format	PDF
Date Published	May 2004
Format	White Papers
Topics	Optical Networking, Switching, Network Design

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