In this paper, we investigate all-optical ultrafast pulse-position-modulation (PPM) based header processing scheme for all-optical packet-switched network with up to 32 nodes by means of software simulation. A new routing table and packet header address format based on PPM is proposed, which offers reduced routing table size and the header-processing time. In addition, we show that packet forwarding in multiple transmitting modes is also possible. Simulation results presented demonstrate the working principal of the proposed concept
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Optical Fibre Communications and Electronic Signal Processing, 2005. The IEE Seminar on (Ref. No. 2005-11310)
Date of Conference: 15-15 Dec. 2005