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Contention-Based Limited Deflection Routing Protocol in Optical Burst-Switched Networks

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Author(s)

SuKyoung Lee, Kotikalapudi Sriram, H S. Kim, J S. Song

Abstract

We have implemented a quantum key distribution (QKD) system with polarization encoding at 850 nm over 1 km of optical fiber. The high-speed management of the bit-stream, generation of random numbers and processing of the sifting algorithm are all handled by a pair of custom data handling circuit boards. As a complete system using a clock rate of 1.25 Gbit/s, it produces sifted keys at a rate of 1.1 Mb/s with an error rate lower than 1.3% while operating at a transmission rate of 312.5 Mbit/s and a mean photon number 5 = 0.1. With a number of proposed improvements this system has a potential for a higher key rate without an elevated error rate.
Citation
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Volume
23
Issue
8

Keywords

burst contention, burst loss mitigation, deflection routing, optical burst switching, optical Internet, performance

Citation

Lee, S. , Sriram, K. , Kim, H. and Song, J. (2005), Contention-Based Limited Deflection Routing Protocol in Optical Burst-Switched Networks, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (Accessed March 28, 2024)
Created July 31, 2005, Updated October 12, 2021