Mobility support in optical slot switching-based next-generation mobile backhaul networks

International audienceWe propose a new CoS-aware mechanism to support User-Element mobility at optical layer in optical slot switching-based next-generation mobile backhaul network. This new mechanism allows supporting 30% additional network load and up to halves latency compared with naive mechanism. Introduction With the evolution of the optical transport technologies, energy-efficient solutions for the transport in the radio access part of cellular backhaul networks have become available. In this paper, we consider the use of a fine granularity optical transport solution: optical slot switching (OSS), an energy-efficien

On coherent detection for optical transmissions at 40 GB/S and 100 GB/S

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DEVICE FOR CORRECTING THE PHASE SHIFT OF A TRANSMISSION CHANNEL

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