• DocumentCode
    3522288
  • Title

    Bandwidth-Efficient Optical Burst-Switched Networks using only a Minimum Number of Shared Wavelength Converters

  • Author

    Pedro, Joao ; Monteiro, Pedro ; Pires, Joao

  • Author_Institution
    Nokia Siemens Networks Portugal S.A., Amadora, Portugal
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    24-28 Feb. 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    This paper shows that by combining traffic engineering in the wavelength domain with delayed burst scheduling, OBS networks can achieve high bandwidth utilization efficiency while using only a minimum number of shared wavelength converters.
  • Keywords
    optical burst switching; optical fibre networks; optical wavelength conversion; telecommunication traffic; bandwidth utilization efficiency; delayed burst scheduling; optical burst switching networks; shared wavelength converters; traffic engineering; wavelength domain; Bandwidth; Costs; Optical buffering; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers; Optical wavelength conversion; Propagation delay; Switches; Telecommunication traffic;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-856-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.2008.4528247
  • Filename
    4528247