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An optical wavelength switching architecture for a high-performance low-power photonic NoC

Koohi, S ; Sharif University of Technology | 2011

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1109/WAINA.2011.23
  3. Publisher: 2011
  4. Abstract:
  5. The paper proposes a scalable wavelength-switched optical NoC, named as SWS-ONoC. The proposed architecture is built upon a novel all-optical router which passively routes optical data streams based on their wavelengths. Utilizing wavelength routing method, SWS-ONoC eliminates electrical transactions for optical resource reservation and hence, reduces latency and area overheads of the electrical units. The proposed architecture benefits from Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) scheme to efficiently route multicast optical packets concurrent with unicast data streams. Performing a series of simulation-based experiments, we study efficiency of the proposed architecture, its power and energy consumption, and data transmission delay under a hybrid traffic pattern, composed of multicast and unicast packets
  6. Keywords:
  7. Optics ; Area overhead ; Data stream ; Data transmission delay ; Electrical units ; Energy consumption ; Low Power ; Multicasts ; NoC ; Optical data ; Optical packets ; Optical resources ; Optical wavelength ; Passive Router ; Power Consumption ; Proposed architectures ; Simulation-based ; Traffic pattern ; Unicast ; Unicast packets ; Wavelength routing ; Wavelength Switching ; Wavelength-switched ; Architecture ; Computer architecture ; Data communication systems ; Energy utilization ; Fiber optic networks ; Multicasting ; Multiplexing equipment ; Routers ; Wavelength division multiplexing ; Wavelength
  8. Source: Proceedings - 25th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops, WAINA 2011, 22 March 2011 through 25 March 2011 ; March , 2011 , Pages 1-6 ; 9780769543383 (ISBN)
  9. URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=5763403