Control Protocol for Optical Packet Switched Local Area Network

Nowadays local access network technologies tend to take advantage of the potentially high data rate capabilities of fibre communication to deliver faster and more various services to end users than the traditional access networks, whilst the characteristics of current optical technologies impose several constraints and bottlenecks on the operations and deployment of all optical networks. This work aims to design an efficient control protocol for optical packet switched local area network, avoiding the limitations and challenges that optical technologies usually have, so that optical packet switching can be implemented in the near future with existing optical components.