Stanford High Performance Networking Group
Reading Group
Goals | Schedule | Mailing List | Topics | Summaries| Resources| Questions

Goals

We want to create a discussion group, where we try to find new questions that haven't been answered yet in the ever-evolving world of high-performance networking. Our goal is to first select an area of great interest, then to understand what the state of the art in that area is. Once we are confident with the technology, we will identify new questions of interest to the research community, and we will try to sketch an answer to them. 

In a way we are selecting questions that could make a future Ph.D. thesis in High-Performance Networking. 


Schedule

Please have a look at our Weekly schedule. 

Mailing List

You can reach all the participants at reading@klamath.stanford.edu. If you would like to be added to this list, please send a email to majordomo@klamath.stanford.edu with the words "subscribe reading" in the body of the message. 

Topics

The world needs the kind of switching capacity that only optical technology can provide. Currently, no-one has a good/workable optical switch/router architecture/solution to provide the capacity needed. 

More specifically we want to look into optical technology and its possible use in packet networks. Here are some of the questions that we see:

  • Digital Cross-connect vs. optical cross-connect 
  • What is out there and what is missing? 
  • What would be a new architecture that would profit from this technology?
Some other topics that proposed here

Summaries

In each session we will start with two or three people giving a 20-30 min presentation of a small topic of their choice. Afterwards we will have a 30 minute dicussion about these topics. At first we will see what the state of the art in optical technology is, so that we can properly identify questions of interest to the rearch community. This knowledge will we useful to have a first try in answering them.

Speakers should produce a 1 page summary of their talk. If they discuss one paper, they should include the three main ideas of the paper (there are always three, right?) and the weak point(s) that they find in it. You can use the following template to write your summary (it is located under /klamath/home/http/html/reading/TEMPLATE.html in the HPN file system) 

The summaries for the different session are listed below:

  1. Overview of existing optical networking technologies: 
  2. Existing optical networking solutions and proposals: 
  3. Circuit Switching and Flow Allocation 
  4. Electronic Switching and Computer Networking 
  5. Overview of optical access network architecture 
  6. Architectural Principles of Optical Regional and Metropolitan Access Networks 
  7. Metro Optical Networking  (by Jason)

Resources

  1. Optical Components 
    2. IEEE Communications Magazine, Dec. 1998

    SPIE-Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, Journal on Optical Engineering
    FAQ on diode lasers
  2. Prof. David A. B. Miller's group @ Stanford University [URL1], [URL2] 
    3. The group is focussed on optical interconnections esp. the physics behind it.  One project in optical logic too. 
  3. Prof. Leonid G. Kazovsky's group @ Stanford University [URL1], [URL2] 
    4. The group seems to be focussed on components, systems and networks, the main focus is systems.  Projects in opto-elecronic packet switched metropolitan area ring network and passive WDM local area network. 
  4. MOST (Multidisciplianry Optical Switching Technology), and also Thunder and Lightning 
  5. All-Optical Label Swapping (AOLS) with Wavelength Conversion for WDM-IP Networks 
  6. V. Chan et.al., "Architectures and Technologies for High-Speed Optical Data Networks" Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 16, no. 12, Dec. 1998, pp. 2146 - 2168 
  7. A. Saleh et.al., "Architectural Principles of Optical Regional and Metropolitan Access Networks," Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 16, no. 12, Dec. 1999, pp. 2431 - 2448 
  8. J. Anderson et. al., "Protocols and Architecture for IP Optical Networking," Bell Labs Technical Journal, Jan-Mar 1999, pp. 105 - 123 
  9. Y. Chen et. al., "Metro Optical Networking", Bell Labs Technical Journal, Jan-Mar 1999, pp. 163 - 186 
  10. Y. Rekhter et. al. ,"Multi-Protocol Lambda Switching: Issues in Combining MPLS Traffic Engineering Control with Optical Crossconnects", Internet Draft, 01/20/2000 
  11. C. Gile & M. Spector, "The Wavelength Add/Drop Multiplexer for Lightwave Communication Networks", Bell Labs Technical Journal, Jan-Mar 1999, pp. 207 - 229 
  12. N. Jackman et. al. "Optical Cross Connects for Optical Networking", Bell Labs Technical Journal, Jan-Mar 1999, pp. 262 - 281 
  13. B. Hoanca et. al., "All-Optical Routing Using Wavelength Recognizing Switches", Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 16, no. 12, Dec. 1998, pp. 2431 - 2448 
  14. S. Johnson and V. Nichols, "Advanced Optical Networking - Lucent's MONET Network Elements", Bell Labs Technical Journal, Jan-Mar 1999, pp. 145-162 
  15. D. Hunter et. al. ,"WASPNET: A Wavelength Switched Packet Network," IEEE Communications Magazine, March 1999, pp. 120 - 129

Questions

The list of questions that we have had during various reading group sessions can be found here. Please search for answers to them! 
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