Optical-computing-enabled Network: A New Dawn for Optical-layer Intelligence?
<|reference_start|>Optical-computing-enabled Network: A New Dawn for Optical-layer Intelligence?: Inspired by the renaissance of optical computing recently, this poster presents a disruptive outlook on the possibility of seamless integration between optical communications and optical computing infrastructures, paving the way for achieving optical-layer intelligence and consequently boosting the capacity efficiency. This entails a paradigm shift in optical node architecture from the currently used optical-bypass to a novel one, entitled, optical-computing-enabled mode, where in addition to the traditional add-drop and cross-connect functionalities, optical nodes are upgraded to account for optical-computing capabilities between the lightpath entities directly at the optical layer. A preliminary study focusing on the optical aggregation operation is examined and early simulation results indicate a promising spectral saving enabled by the optical-computing-enabled mode compared with the optical-bypass one.<|reference_end|>
@article{hai2024optical-computing-enabled,
    title={Optical-computing-enabled Network: A New Dawn for Optical-layer
  Intelligence?},
    author={Dao Thanh Hai, Minh Nguyen, Isaac Woungang},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.00162},
    year={2024},
    doi={10.1145/3663408.366582},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2406.00162},
    primaryClass={cs.NI cs.ET}
}