Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

Ji Wook Youn

Jongtae Song

Kyeong-Eun Han

Daeub Kim

Min Soo Kim

Hyun Jae Lee

Sun Me Kim

Joon Ki Lee

Bup Joong Kim

Hong Ju Kim

Chansung Park

Jong Ho Kim

Jong Hyun Lee

Seung Woo Lee

Hee Sang Chung

Tae Whan Yoo

Je Soo Ko

Yool Kwon

Jongho Kim

Kwang Joon Kim

Hyung Joo Kim

Jong-Yoon Shin

Byung Jun Ahn

Hyun Woo Cho

Hyun Ha Hong

Jong Yoon Shin

Hyun Yong Hwang

Jae Hoon Yu

Sung Un Lee

A method and apparatus for allocating a memory address in a resource-centric network are disclosed. The method of allocating a memory address may include receiving a request for a new service, determining whether the new service is able to be accommodated in a virtual memory that is pre-allocated in a resource-centric network, when the new service is able to be accommodated, allocating a memory area for accommodating the new service to the virtual memory, and when the new service is not able to be accommodated, allocating the memory area by using an additionally allocated area of a virtual memory of the resource-centric network.

Method and apparatus for allocating memory addresses in resource-centric networks

A system for cooperation of disaggregated computing resources interconnected through an optical circuit, and a method for cooperation of disaggregated resources are disclosed. Functional block devices such as a processor block, an accelerator block, and a memory fabric block exist at a remote location, and these three types of remote functional block devices are interconnected and interoperated in a specific program to perform a cooperative computation and processing process. Accordingly, the system shares data and information of a memory existing in each block through optical signal interconnection that provides low-latency, fast processing, and wide bandwidth, and maintains cooperation and memory coherency.

System for cooperation of disaggregated computing resources interconnected through optical circuit, and method for cooperation of disaggregated resources

Provided are a memory access method and a server for performing the same. A memory access method performed by an optical interleaver included in a server includes receiving a request message from a requester processing engine included in the server, setting receiving buffers corresponding to different wavelengths corresponding to the number of external memory/storage devices connected to the server, multiplexing the same request message at the different wavelengths according to a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) scheme, and transmitting the multiplexed request messages to the respective external memory/storage devices, wherein an address of a virtual memory managed by the server is separated and stored according to an interleaving scheme by a responder included in each of the external memory/storage devices.

Interleaved wideband memory access method using optical switch, and server for performing the same

A scheduling method for switching including receiving an allocation request for a time slot from input nodes to which the time slot is not allocated, receiving property information of at least one of virtual output queues (VOQs) in which data received by the input nodes is stored, determining a transmission priority of the VOQs for transmission of the data stored in the VOQs based on the received property information of the VOQs, determining input nodes to which the time slot is to be allocated using outputter arbiters for output nodes corresponding to the VOQs, allocating the time slot to the determined input nodes, and updating elements used to allocate the time slot with respect to input nodes for which the allocating of the time slot is completed and output nodes for which the allocating of the time slot is completed.

Scheduling method and scheduler for switching

An optical switching control method and apparatus. The method includes generating an optical switching path corresponding to a destination node of service traffic flowing from an external service network, generating an optical frame corresponding to the generated optical switching path, transmitting, to a control server, a request message for requesting an allocation of a time slot to transmit the generated optical frame, generating an optical signal having a predetermined wavelength to transmit the optical frame in response to an admission message being received as a result of admission with respect to the request message, and transferring the optical frame to the destination node based on the optical switching path using the generated optical signal.

Packet-based optical signal switching control method and apparatus

An apparatus for protection switching in an optical transport network (OTN) includes: a working path interface module configured to check, via a working path for protection switching, connectivity of a first end node and a corresponding second end node; and a protecting path interface module configured to check connectivity of the first end node and the second node via a protection path for protection switching. Upon confirming the connectivity, the working path interface module and the protection path interface module exchange bandwidth resize (BWR) coordination information with each other and simultaneously output an ODUflex bandwidth control signal based on the exchanged BWR coordination information.

Apparatus and method for protection switching in optical transport network (OTN) suporting ODUflex(GFP)

Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for mapping an SDH signal and other 40-Gbps client signals through a single data path. The mapping apparatus supports both a justification byte mapping scheme and a sigma-delta distribution mapping scheme and implements a single data path. Accordingly, power consumption may be reduced by changing each mapping mode in a hitless manner or minimizing logic capacity according to a mapping mode used in the mapping apparatus.

Apparatus and method for mapping a client signal

A node of an optical transport network system transmits optical wavelengths to an adjacent node through an operational line. An apparatus for protection switching of the optical transport network system transmits only an optical channel with a fault among a plurality of optical channels composed of flexible optical channel data units in an optical wavelength of the operational line, via a reserve line.

Method and apparatus for protection switching in optical transport network

Provided is a packet/TDM switch that may classify a type of a received signal based on slot recognition information received from an Ethernet mapping unit or a TDM mapping unit, and may process the received signal using a dedicated switch corresponding to each of the Ethernet mapping unit and the TDM mapping unit according to the type of the received signal.

Method and apparatus for switching packet/time division multiplexing (TDM) including TDM circuit and carrier ethernet packet signal

A packet-optical integrated switch without an optical transponder, includes: a packet line card configured to output an Ethernet packet signal to a pre-set output port; a packet switch fabric configured to transfer the packet signal from the packet line card to the output port previously set in a destination address included in the packet signal; a 10 gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE)/optical transport unit level 2 (OTU2) integrated line card configured to convert the packet signal from the packet switch fabric into an OTU2 optical signal having a pre-set wavelength; and a wavelength selection switch fabric configured to allocate the optical signal from the 10 GbE/OTU2 integrated line card to a pre-set wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) port by pre-set wavelength to exchange the optical signal to each port by wavelength, wherein the packet line card, the packet switch fabric, the 10 GbE/OTU2 integrated line card, and the wavelength selection switch fabric perform the reverse operations of the process, respectively.

Packet-optical integrated switch without optical transponder

Provided are an Ethernet line card and a method of providing various services using the same. The Ethernet line card includes: a priority allocation unit setting a priority of a received Ethernet packet according to a pre-set control standard based on header information of the Ethernet packet; a quality of service (QoS) guarantee unit defining a capacity per class based on a pre-set QoS standard, inserting the Ethernet packet into a relevant class, and dropping and managing the Ethernet packet based on the priority if the Ethernet packet exceeds a capacity of the relevant class; and a signal processing unit managing and updating the pre-set control standard and the pre-set QoS standard, receiving results of processing the Ethernet packet from the priority allocation unit and the QoS guarantee unit, and storing the received results.

Ethernet line card and method of providing various services using the same

The Ethernet packet transmission apparatus includes: a packet transceiving unit for transceiving an Ethernet packet through a plurality of Ethernet ports; a MAC header processing unit for receiving the Ethernet packet and reading header information; a packet processing unit for receiving the Ethernet packet, classifying the received Ethernet packet on a service or destination basis, assigning a priority label to the classified Ethernet packet on a packet-by-packet basis, and outputting memory state information on the corresponding port; a congestion controlling unit for controlling a position in an output sequence of the Ethernet packet; and a signal processing unit for receiving and comparing the port state information and the memory state information and outputting either a memory control signal or a congestion control signal to control the packet processing unit and the congestion controlling unit.

Ethernet packet transmission apparatus and method

Provided is an apparatus for guaranteeing the performance of Ethernet packets in an Ethernet system. A packet sorting unit receives the Ethernet packets, processes header information of the Ethernet packets, and sorts the Ethernet packets. A packet processing unit stores the Ethernet packets, calculates the number of the Ethernet packets, and outputs the Ethernet packets. A packet to synchronous digital hierarchy frame converting unit receives the Ethernet packets output from the packet processing unit, converts the received Ethernet packets into synchronous digital hierarchy frames, calculates the number of the converted frames, maps the frames to a virtual container group, and outputs the virtual container group. And a signal processing unit measures the performance of the Ethernet packets on the basis of the number of the Ethernet packets stored in the packet processing unit and the number of the frames, and outputs the first and second control signals.

Apparatus and method for guaranteeing performance of packet in Ethernet system

An optical channel power equalizer for equalizing the per-channel power levels of a multi-channel optical signal is provided. The channel power equalizer includes an optical spectrum measurement unit that extracts a portion of the amplified optical signal and measures the per-channel power levels of the extracted optical signal; a controller that compares the measured power levels with a predetermined reference value, and determines to output the degrees of attenuation per channel based on differences between the measured per-channel power levels and the reference value; and a per-channel optical attenuation unit that attenuates the per-channel power levels of a plurality of input optical signals based on the degrees of attenuation and outputs the attenuated optical signals as the plurality of channels.

Optical channel power equalizer

An optical packet header processing apparatus for processing a header of an optical packet expressing an address of a destination node to control a switching operation of an optical packet switch. The optical packet header processing apparatus comprises a beam splitter for splitting the optical packet header into a predetermined number of optical packet header elements, and a plurality of time interval detectors. Each of the time interval detectors receives a corresponding one of the optical packet header elements from the beam splitter and outputs a detect optical pulse if a pair of optical pulses having a predetermined time interval therebetween are present in the received optical packet header element. A plurality of optical pulse detectors are adapted to convert the detect optical pulses from the time interval detectors into electrical signals and transfer the converted electrical signals to the optical packet switch, respectively. Therefore, the optical packet switch determines the destination node in response to the electrical signals from the optical pulse detectors and outputs the optical packet to an output port corresponding to the determined destination node.

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Daejeon, South Korea

Ji Wook Youn