Optical buffering

Introducing optical switching in high-capacity commercial routers
High-performance packet switches are costly, bulky and power-hungry. Their scalability is constrained by the limits of electronic …
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PI-OBS: a parallel iterative optical burst scheduler for OBS networks
This paper presents the PI-OBS algorithm, a parallel-iterative scheduler for OBS nodes. Conventional schemes are greedy in the sense …
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Traffic shaping trends in optical packet/burst switching networks
This paper surveys a set of relevant techniques proposed for traffic shaping in backbone OBS/OPS networks. The work is intended to fuel …
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Performance evaluation of slotted OPS switching fabrics under self-similar traffic
This paper evaluates the performance of slotted Optical Packet Switching (OPS) switching fabrics under self-similar traffic. The issue …
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GMPLS Optical Packet Switching Networks: Optical vs. Electronic Feasibility
This paper surveys and analyzes the GMPLS extensions proposed for synchronous slotted optical packet switching (OPS) networks, from the …
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Optical packet switching fabrics comparison under SCWP/SHWP operational modes
Commercial applications of optical packet switching to backbone WDM networks are still far from reality due to hardware costs. The two …
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Maximal matching characterization of optical packet input-buffered wavelength routed switches
The shared wavelength path (SHWP) and the scattered wavelength path (SCWP) were proposed under the WASPNET (wavelength switched packet …
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