Abstract

To meet bandwidth requirements, optical slotted ring networks^1,2 have been proposed for future LANs/MANs and B-ISDN access networks. In these cell-based optical networks, a header attached to each packet payload carries a destination address that has to be processed at each node to route the payload to the desired destination. It is possible to increase the network throughput further by processing packet headers almost at the same speed as the payload transfer rate. As a result, a great attention has been paid to the study on optical header-processing techniques.^1,3

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