Next Generation Integrated Metro-Access Network

MARIN: Metro and Access Ring Integrated Network

Fig.1 Telecom Pendulum

Fig.2 Metro and Access Ring Integrated Network

Introduction

The main bottleneck of today’s networks is in their access segment. To address that bottleneck, this project is focused on fiber broadband access. MARIN has been launched in 2005 to investigate a powerful set of technologies for fiber access and MANs. MARIN stands for Metro and Access Rings Integrated Network, and makes use of wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) ring technology to addyahress the current and future limitations of both access networks and MANs. MARIN has the following innovative features:

WDM ring technology integrating MAN and access networks and providing Tb/s MAN capacity;
Highly scalability with respect to the number of users and data rates;
Smooth transition from legacy networks to future networks;
Compatibility with both electronic and optical routing for high speed and low latency;
High-speed routing based on Optical Burst Switching (OBS) to avoid delays;
Compatibility with routing employing wavelength conversion;
Novel parametric optoelectronic components recently developed by my group.

My MARIN research program will investigate in depth the feasibility of the proposed MARIN architecture. We will perform investigations in the areas of access networks, MAN, and OBS with wavelength conversion, which will become more integrated in the future. The research will culminate in a testbed incorporating all features necessary to test the performance of the MARIN architecture, and demonstrate its benefits.

Researchers

Advisor

Prof. Leonid G. Kazovsky

Visiting Scholars

Prof. Michel Marhic (consulting professor, now with Swansea University), marhic@pnrl.stanford.edu
Dr. Ning Cheng, chengn@stanford.edu

Graduate Students

Wei-Tao Shaw, wtshaw@stanford.edu
Georgios Kalogerakis, gkalog@stanford.edu
Shing-Wa Wong, shingw@stanford.edu

Sponsor

National Science Foundation (award number 0520291)

Recent Research Directions

Integrated Metro and Access Ring Network

- An ultra broadband, highly scalable, reconfigurable, and secure integrated metro-access ntework.
- Ultra-fast tunable optical parametric wavelength conversion and its practical application.
- Novel geographically distributed dynamic optical burst switching technique.

Fig.3 Generic MARIN Architecture

MARIN Hybrid Access Network

- A scalable, flexible, and high performance optical backbone architecture to support next generation, ubiquitous wireless access network.

Fig.4 Hybrid Optical and Wireless Access Network

MARIN-AIM: Access Interconnected Mesh Network

- Novel interconnecting WDM access network that enhances metro ring performance.
- Integrated metro-access interface for transparent and efficient traffic transport.

Presentations

S.-W. Wong, W.-T. Shaw, K. Balasubramaian, and N. Cheng , L. Kazovsky, "Metro and Access Ring Integrated Network," Stanford Photonics Research Center Annual Report, 2007.
W.-T. Shaw, S.-W. Wong, and N. Cheng , "GROW-Net: Fiber and Wireless Now!", Stanford Computer Forum, 2007. [pdf]

Publications

S.-W. Wong, W.-T. Shaw,N. Cheng, C. Qiao, and L. G. Kazovsky, "Dynamic Wavelength Allocation in a Converged and Scalable Interface for Metro-Access Ring Integrated Networks," submitted to IEEE OFC 2008.

W.-T. Shaw, S.-W. Wong, N. Cheng, K. Balasubramaian, X. Qing, M. Maier, and L. G. Kazovsky, "Hybrid Architecture and Integrated Routing in Scalable Optical-Wireless Access Network," accepted for publication in IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology.

S.-W. Wong, W.-T. Shaw, K. Balasubramaian, N. Cheng, L. G. Kazovsky, "MARIN: Demonstration of a Flexible and Dynamic Metro-Access Integrated Architecture," accepted for publication in IEEE Global Telecommunication Conference (Globecom 2007).

W.-T. Shaw, S.-W. Wong, N. Cheng , and L. G. Kazovsky, "MARIN Hybrid Optical-Wireless Access Network," IEEE Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC 2007), Anaheim, CA, March 2007.

W.-T. Shaw, G. Kalogerakis, S.-W. Wong, Y.-L. Hsueh, N. Cheng, S.-H. Yen, M. E. Marhic, and L. G. Kazovsky, "MARIN: Metro-Access Ring Integrated Network," IEEE Global Telecommunication Conference (Globecom 2006), San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2006.

S.-W. Wong, W.-T. Shaw, S. Das, and L. G. Kazovsky, "Enabling Security Countermeasure and Service Restoration in Passive Optical Networks," IEEE Global Telecommunication Conference (Globecom 2006), San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2006.

W.-T. Shaw, S.-W. Wong, Y.-L. Hsueh, Ning Cheng, and Leonid G. Kazovsky, "Burst Switching Metro-Access Ring Integrated Network," IEEE International Conference on Broadband Networks (BroadNets 2006), San Jose, CA, Oct. 2006.

W.-T. Shaw, S.-W. Wong, Y.-L. Hsueh, and Leonid G. Kazovsky, "End-to-End QoS of Video Streaming Service on Joint SUCCESS DWA PON and Modified RPR Network," IEEE International Conference on Broadband Networks (BroadNets 2006), San Jose, CA, Oct. 2006.

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