NRT: Optical Multiplexed Mesh Networks (OMM-Net) for Thin-Layer, Multi-Service Transparent Optical Transport

拟议的项目进行了一个新的，高效和透明的光网络范例，称为OMM-Net，它避免了快速的光交换和缓冲在网络核心调度快速可调谐激光器，并在网络边缘的准入控制和缓冲的理论研究。通过有效的调度和全局同步，将时分复用和波分复用相结合，使光网络的边界更接近终端用户。OMM-Net将网络视为一个巨大的地理分布的广义Birkhoff-von Neumann交换机，其中网络边缘是其输入/输出端口，结构由光纤和准静态波长选择交换机组成。通过在网络边缘调度超快可调谐激光器来模拟端到端交换，实际上提供亚微秒交换，而不需要快速的内部网络节点交换和光缓冲。

The proposed project carries out a theoretical investigation of a new, highly efficient and transparent optical networking paradigm, called OMM-Net, which avoids fast optical switching and buffering in the network core by scheduling fast tunable lasers, and admission control and buffering at the network edge. The boundary of the optical network is pushed closer to end users by combining time and wavelength division multiplexing for mesh networks through effective scheduling and global synchronization. OMM-Net views the network as a giant and geographically distributed generalized Birkhoff-von Neumann switch in which the network edge are its input/output ports and the fabric consists of fibers and quasi-static wavelength-selective switches. End-to-end switching is emulated by scheduling ultrafast tunable lasers at the network edge, in effect providing sub-microsecond switching without requiring fast internal network node switching and optical buffering.