Dominique Chiaroni

TL;DR: The work carried out under the European ACTS KEOPS (KEys to Optical Packet Switching) project, centering on the definition, development and assessment of optical packet switching and routing networks capable of providing transparency to the payload bit rate, is reviewed in this article.

TL;DR: The feasibility of the KEOPS concept is assessed by modeling, laboratory experiments, and testbed implementation of optical packet switching nodes and network/node interfacing blocks, including a fully equipped demonstrator.

TL;DR: The obtained good results in terms of bit error rate and hardware integration are reported, showing that ATM switches are feasible with state of-the-art optical technology.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose to simplify the connection protocols of an optical communication network using wavelength division multiplexing and to increase the throughput of the network, each node sends messages on a specific wavelength and associates destination labels with them.

TL;DR: An optical buffer shift register based on a set of fiber delay lines is presented, with the goal of providing cell storage and queuing in asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) photonic switches and shows that system synchronization and reliability are good.