BIDIRECTIONAL OPTICAL DATA PACKET SWITCHING INTERCONECTION NETWORK
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1. A bidirectional optical packet switching interconnection network, said network comprising:
- one or more optical switching nodes with bidirectional links, each of which comprises forward input and reverse output optical data packet flow ports and reverse input and forward output optical data packet flow ports;
a switching unit operatively coupled to said optical switching nodes to route said optical data packet flow both in forward and reverse direction; and
an electronic processing unit operatively coupled to said optical switching nodes and said switching unit to execute the routing of the optical data packets both in forward and reverse directions based on extracted control signals.
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Abstract
The present disclosure discloses data vortex architecture with bidirectional links in which the packets are routed both in forward as well as in reverse directions through a single node. The disclosed arrangement avoids any packet congestion in the network and improves the BER characteristics.
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1. A bidirectional optical packet switching interconnection network, said network comprising:
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one or more optical switching nodes with bidirectional links, each of which comprises forward input and reverse output optical data packet flow ports and reverse input and forward output optical data packet flow ports; a switching unit operatively coupled to said optical switching nodes to route said optical data packet flow both in forward and reverse direction; and an electronic processing unit operatively coupled to said optical switching nodes and said switching unit to execute the routing of the optical data packets both in forward and reverse directions based on extracted control signals. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method for bidirectional optical packet switching, said method comprising:
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providing one or more optical switching nodes with bidirectional links, each of which comprises forward input and reverse output optical data packet flow ports and reverse input and forward output optical data packet flow ports; selecting the switching direction to route said optical data packet flow both in forward and reverse direction; and executing the routing of the optical data packets both in forward and reverse directions based on extracted control signals. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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