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We propose a new receiver architecture for coherent detection in slotted optical packet switching rings with elastic (rate adaptive) optical transponders. Such rings are a candidate solution for future datacenter and metropolitan networks. The new receiver can detect more than a single packet per time slot and consequently has higher flexibility (translating into higher supported capacity, or, equivalently, lower end-to-end latency, or a combination or both), at the cost of a moderate increase in the transponder complexity and energy consumption (less than 10 %). We apply network planning and traffic engineering simulation tools (which we validate on small examples using theoretical models) to quantify the increase in network capacity and latency reduction that can be achieved thanks to the use of the new receivers. Finally, we identify the stability problem of the insertion process in the rings with the coherent receivers and propose a polynomial network planning algorithm, for the case of fast-tunable transmitters. We evaluate the cost of enforcing the stability, in terms of the additional transponders needed, for the mentioned case.
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Since the latency due to propagation is fixed by the topology, it is not accounted for in our results.
The network planning algorithms enforcing the stability in the other configurations of BOSS rings with coherent detection, including the configurations with the new receivers, are left for future study. Note that the ad hoc stability condition applied on the design of a network with new receivers (that consists in limiting the wavelength occupancy to 90 %) seems to be sufficient for random traffic profile studied in this paper, as shown in Sect. 5.
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This work was supported by the French Government (Direction Générale des Entreprises) in the framework of the CELTIC+ SASER-SaveNet project.
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Uscumlic, B., Gravey, A., Gravey, P. et al. Capacity-enhanced receivers for low-latency Burst Optical Slot Switching rings. Photon Netw Commun 31, 432–447 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11107-015-0587-y
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