Functional Model of Communication Network of Microwave Link Stations with Adaptive Modulation and Package Switching

The article describes the model of the communication network functioning, which consist of microwave link stations with adaptive modulation and packet switching. Mathematical expressions are presented, which allow to calculate particular indicators of stability and throughput of microwave link intervals, lines and communication directions, as well as generalized quality indicators of the communication network as a whole, taking into account the peculiarities of the functioning of microwave link stations with adaptive modulation and packet switching under the fading conditions at separate microwave link intervals.

Router1x3 Protocol Design Implementation and Verification with Virtual Cut through Mechanism for Network on Chip (NoC)

Hundreds of processors and memory cores are implemented on a single substrate called the System on Chip (SoC). The SoC with bus-based architecture has restrictions on the processing speed of the system and as the design becomes complex and the issue of scalability arises. Hence NoC is designed to enhance the scalability, data reliability, and processing speed with low power consumption by decoupling communication from computations [1]. Using NoC the IP cores of SoC are connected through on-chip routers and send data to each other through packet switching. The router is a processing chip that decides the right path for data transmission, hence the efficient design of the router is essential to enhance the performance and throughput of the system [2]. To reduces latency through the switch, the Virtual cut-through mechanism is a packet switching technique, in which the switch starts forwarding a packet as soon as the destination address is processed by header. Hence the present work focuses on a router input-output protocol design with the Virtual Cut-through mechanism for closed-loop communication. Router 1x3 has a single input port and three output ports. The architecture of Router 1x3 with sub-modules such as FIFO, FSM, Synchronizer, and Register is designed analyzed and verified using Verilog, System Verilog language, and Universal Verification Methodology(UVM). And it is also implemented on Xilinx 14.5 IDE with Spartan-6- XC6SLX45 FPGA.

A Novel Variable-Length Header Extraction Scheme Based on Ring Laser for All-Optical Packet Switching Network

In this paper, a novel header extraction scheme based on semiconductor ring laser is proposed and simulated for proof of principle. This scheme is to be used in all-optical packet switching network which can extract return-to-zero (RZ) format modulation data packet with variable header/payload length and intensive spacing. Simulations and numerical analysis for a 3-byte header and 128-byte payload show that this structure can extract the headers with more than 20 dB contrast ratio. Additionally, the structure simplicity and its small size is proper candida to integration in all-optical circuits.

Optical Packet and Burst-Switched Networks

In order to address poor bandwidth-utilization in circuit-switched WRONs, various techniques for optical packet-switching (OPS) have been explored, but needing complex technologies, such as real-time header extraction/insertion, packet alignment, etc. An intermediate solution between the WRONs and OPS networks – the optical burst-switched (OBS) network – has been explored, where several packets are clubbed together at ingress nodes to form optical bursts, which are transmitted with the headers sent as control packets ahead of each bursts. With this prior resource-reservation scheme at en-route nodes before burst arrivals, OBS networks overcome the challenges of OPS networks, while improving bandwidth utilization as compared to WRONs. We first present the node architectures, followed by header-processing schemes and switch designs for OPS networks. Next we present the basic concepts of OBS networking and describe the necessary network protocols, including burst assembly scheme, just enough time (JET) signaling, resource-reservation and routing schemes. (145 words)