STOCHASTIC NETWORKS SEMINAR

Speaker: Damon Wischik

Date: Wednesday, October 3rd, 2001.

Time: 3-4 p.m

Location: Packard 204

Title: ISSUES IN MODELLING OPTICAL NETWORKS.

Abstract: An all-optical network is likely to have two characteristics:
high capacity, and limited flexibility. The high capacity comes about
because optical switches are simple: they have no buffers and no
high-speed per-packet classification, they just redirect beams of light.
The limited flexibility comes about for the same reason; it has the
consequence that neither packet-switched nor circuit-switched network
models are entirely appropriate. In this talk I shall describe several
possible models, which look at routing, multiplexing, and buffering.