An ultra-fast photonic ring network employing Optical Packet Compression-Time Division Multiplexing (OPC-TDM) scheme

An ultra-fast photonic ring network employing full-scalable Optical Packet Compression TDM (OPC-TDM) scheme is investigated in this paper. Moreover, a new optical packet compression/decompression unit is proposed, which allow s high compression rates and large packet sizes thereby relaxing the medium access constraints. The extensive simulations are performed in order to in vestigate the feasibility of the proposed compression/decompression scheme. The improvement of the OPC-TDM network performance achieved by reducing th e rate-conversion latency is shown.