WDM slot sharing of colored optical packets for latency improvement and Class of Service differentiation
02 July 2017
The optical packet switching technology has been identified as a key technology to offer data rate and modulation format transparency, fine switching granularity and efficient bandwidth utilization. The ANR N-GREEN project proposes a novel over-dimensioned switch/router node with colored optical packet concept. In this work, we propose a new WDM slot sharing approach that significantly improves N-GREEN node-level latency, and show that it is quite effective for Class of Service differentiation in the optical domain.