Fractional lambda switching: Difference between revisions

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| year = 2004 }} </ref> leverages on [[time-driven switching]] ([[Time-Driven Switching|TDS]]) to realize [[sub-lambda switching]]{{clarifyClarify me|date=March 2009}} in highly scalable dynamic [[optical switching|optical networking]], <ref> M. Baldi, Y. Ofek, "[http://staff.polito.it/mario.baldi/publications/ONM2003.pdf Realizing Dynamic Optical Networking]," [http://optical-networks.com/ Optical Networks Magazine], [http://www.springerlink.com/content/t87443j2276n0w26/?p=ee76836c03234578b4a3e08418d41461&pi=0 Special Issue "Dynamic Optical Networking: around the Corner or Light Years Away?"], Vol. 4, No. 5, Sep./Oct. 2003, pp. 100-111. </ref> which requires minimum (possibly optical) buffers. In this context, TDS has the same general objectives as [[optical burst switching]] and [[optical packet switching]]: realizing all-optical networks with high wavelength utilization. TDS operation is based on time frames (TFs) that can be viewed as virtual containers for multiple [[internet protocol|IP]] packets that are switched at every TDS switch based on and coordinated by the [[UTC]] ([[coordinated universal time]]) signal implementing [[pipeline forwarding]]. In the context of optical networks, [[synchronous virtual pipe|synchronous virtual pipes]]s [[synchronous virtual pipe|SVPs]] typical of [[pipeline forwarding]] are called fractional lambda pipes (FλPs).

In FλS, likewise in TDS, all packets in the same time frame are switched in the same way. Consequently, header processing is not required, which results in low complexity (hence high scalability) and enables optical implementation <ref> D. Agrawal, M. Baldi, M. Corrà, G. Fontana, T. H. Truong, G. Marchetto, V. T. Nguyen, [http://dit.unitn.it/ofek/ Y. Ofek], D. Severina, O. Zadedyurina, "[http://staff.polito.it/mario.baldi/publications/2007ISCC_PF_testbed.pdf A Scalable Approach for Supporting Streaming Media: Design, Implementation and Experiments]," IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 07), Aveiro (Portugal), July 2007.

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Various aspects of the technology are covered by [http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=0&f=S&l=50&TERM1=synchrodyne&FIELD1=ASNM&co1=AND&TERM2=&FIELD2=&d=PTXT several patents] issued by both the [[United States Patent and Trademark Office]] and the [[European Patent Office]].{{cnFact|date=March 2009}}

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