CAREER: Traffic Scheduling and Network Interconnection in All Optical Networks

小行星9502582穆拉特·阿齐兹奥卢 该提案概述了主要研究者的职业发展计划，并将研究和教学有机结合起来 目标. 该研究计划解决了全光广域网设计中的重要问题。 该教育计划包括开发研究生水平的光通信系统和全光网络课程，将通信网络整合到本科课程中，并开发一个实验室，学生可以在其中设计，实施和测试原型光网络。 全光网络是其中信号从源到目的地保持在光域中的网络。 这种方法通过避免网络内的光电信号转换来消除光学和电子设备之间的速度失配。 当电子处理被限制在终端节点规定，出现了几个具有挑战性的问题，需要新的和创新的方法。这些问题包括波分多址电路和分组交换网络中的流量调度、全光局域网的全光互连、互连网桥中的动态与静态波长分配以及互连网络中的架构问题。这些问题的解决方案必须考虑到光学器件的限制，如激光调谐延迟和有限数量的可分辨的通道。

9502582 Murat Azizoglu This proposal outlines a career development plan for the principal investigator with a coherent integration of research and teaching goals. The research program addresses important issues in the design of all-optical wide area networks. The education plan includes development of graduate-level courses on optical communication systems and all-optical networking, integration of communication networks into undergraduate curriculum and development of a laboratory in which the students can design, implement, and test prototype optical networks. An all-optical network is a network in which the signals remain in the optical domain from the source to the destination. This approach eliminates the speed mismatch between optical and electronic devices by avoiding optical-to-electrical signal conversion within the network. When the electronic processing is limited to the terminal nodes as prescribed, several challenging problems arise which require new and innovative approaches. Among these issues are traffic scheduling in circuit- and packet-switched networks with Wavelength Division Multiple Access, all-optical interconnection of all-optical LANs, dynamic vs. static wavelength assignment in interconnecting bridges, and architectural issues in interconnected networks. Solution to such problems must take into account optical device limitations, such as laser tuning delay and finite number of resolvable channels.