Multiple-Code Technique for Multi-Rate Transmissions in Optical Packet Switching Networks Based on OCDMA Labels

Supporting multi-rate transmission is an essential factor in current optical packet switching (OPS) networks. In this paper, the author studied a multi-rate scheme capable of forwarding packets with different signal rates based on label switching. The multiple-code (MC) technique was employed to label a packet by conveying its payload bits to multiple optical code-division multiple-access (OCDMA) labels. Spectral-amplitude-coding (SAC), which represents the chips in an OCDMA code as a set of wavelengths, was introduced to remove the multiple-access interference (MAI) from the overlapping among labels. The author tested the system effectiveness by conducting numerical analysis to formulate bit-error probability (BEP) and spectral efficiency (SE). The simulation results showed that the proposed network had a stable BEP performance when switching the packet flows of multiple data-rates.