Guest editorial WDM-based network architectures

A plethora of metropolitan area wavelength-division multiplexing networks have been proposed and examined in recent years with the aim to alleviate the bandwidth bottleneck between increasingly higher-speed local/access networks and high-speed backbone ...

This paper investigates the performance of optical code conversion architectures in hybrid technology using wavelength and optical code division multiplexing for optical burst switching network. An OCDM-based multigranularity optical cross-connect is ...