Design and experimental demonstration of network coding in all-optical multicast networks

DOI number:10.1109/ICNIDC.2009.5360879

Affiliation of Author(s):Key Laboratory of Optical Communication & Lightwave Technologies

Journal:2009 IEEE International Conference on Network Infrastructure and Digital Content (IEEE IC-NIDC2009)

Key Words:network coding, all-optical multicast, encoding vectors, SOA

Abstract:The network coding paradigm enables better resource utilization and improves throughput in communication networks, thus, employing network coding in all-optical multicast networks will facilitate the future development of effective optical networks. However, some properties of optical networks, such as limited buffering and weak logic operation capabilities, restrict the application of network coding in optical multicast networks. So in this paper, several problems of adapting network coding to all-optical multicast networks are addressed: (1) Put forward a novel strategy to distribute encoding vectors in all-optical networks, and, (2) design a framework of Encoding Node Model to support the special scheme of encoding vectors assignment in practical networks. Moreover, the experimental demonstration indicates that it is feasible and efficient to employing network coding in optical-layer multicast traffic.

Co-author:Xiaoling Wang,Yuefeng Ji,Lin Bai,Huanlai Xing,Jia Fu

Page Number:500-504

ISSN No.:2374-0272

Translation or Not:no

Date of Publication:2009-11-08