High performance and flexible FPGA-based time shared optical network (TSON) metro node

Abstract

The paper presents the architecture, implementation and evaluation of the flexible and finely granular Time Shared Optical Network (TSON) metro node. It focuses on the FPGA-based Layer 2 TSON metro node system. The experimentally measured results show exceptional performance of up to 8.68 Gbps throughput per 10 Gbps port, 95.38% of theoretical maximum throughput, latency of less than 160 μsec and jitter of less than 25 μsec. The TSON topology agnostic node/network also delivers differentiated QoS latency levels yet always guaranteed (contention-free) by deploying diverse time-slice allocation schemes.

5G infrastructures supporting end-user and operational services: The 5G-XHaul architectural perspective

“…Operational Services: The 5G-XHaul Architectural Perspective Anna Tzanakaki (1) , Markos Anastasopoulos (1) , Dimitra Simeonidou (1) , Ignacio Berberana (2) , Dimitris Syrivelis (3) , Thanasis Korakis (3) , Paris Flegkas (3) , Daniel Camps Mur (4) , Ilker Demirkol (4) , Jesús Gutiérrez (5) , Eckhard Grass (5) , Qing Wei (6) , Emmanouil Pateromichelakis (6) , Albrecht Fehske (7) , Michael Grieger (7) , Michael Eiselt (8) , Jens Bartelt (9) , George Lyberopoulos (10) , Eleni Theodoropoulou (10) I. INTRODUCTION To meet the ever increasing growth of mobile traffic demands, the traditional wireless access network architecture based on single layer macro-cells is being currently transformed to an architecture comprising a large number of smaller cells with densely deployed access points (APs), combined with micro and macro-cells.…”

“…More specifically we consider a physical infrastructure (PI) that interconnects RRHs and end-users with a set of geographically distributed general-purpose servers ([6]) through a heterogeneous frame-based WDM optical metro network [7]. The PI is represented as a weighted graph where represents the set of PI nodes, the set of PI links and describes the set of demands.…”

Archon: A Function Programmable Optical Interconnect Architecture for Transparent Intra and Inter Data Center SDM/TDM/WDM Networking

“…In our design, the ToRs provide bandwidth variable links for intraand inter-DCN communication, and also provide TDM signals for intra-cluster communication. The FGPA-based ToR, implemented using FPGA optoelectronics (HTG Xilinx V6 board), provides hitless inter-function and intra-function switch-over [29], [30]. Fig.…”

Wireless network virtualization: The CONTENT project approach

“…In the series of papers [3][6] details on the layered architecture of the CONTENT project can be found and in [7] the technical approach of the virtualization of the optical domain, using TSON technology, is described. In this work we present the wireless network virtualization solution in the light of the CONTENT technical approach.…”

“…Due to page size limitations, we do not provide technical details regarding the TSON Time shared sub wavelength switching technology used to virtualize the optical resources in the metro network. More details can be found in [7] and [6]. In more detail, in this work we present the converged LTE/Wi-Fi wireless network of the CONTENT architecture; the corresponding wireless domain data plane functionality; and the resource allocation and management framework enhancements we developed for interaction with the TSON optical domain.…”