title: High performance and flexible FPGA-based time shared optical network (TSON) metro node.
abstract: The paper presents the architecture, implementation and evaluation of the flexible and finely granular Time Shared Optical Network (TSON) metro node. It focuses on the FPGA-based Layer 2 TSON metro node system. The experimentally measured results show exceptional performance of up to 8.68 Gbps throughput per 10 Gbps port, 95.38% of theoretical maximum throughput, latency of less than 160 μsec and jitter of less than 25 μsec. The TSON topology agnostic node/network also delivers differentiated QoS latency levels yet always guaranteed (contention-free) by deploying diverse time-slice allocation schemes.
authors.affiliation: High-performance Networks group, Merchant Ventures School of Engineering, University of Bristol, UK. eexyy@bristol.ac.uk
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.forename: Georgios
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zervas
authors.forename: Yixuan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Qin
authors.forename: Bijan R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Rofoee
authors.forename: Dimitra
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Simeonidou