Title :
Congestion control scheme in optical packet switched networks
Author :
Lu, Zheng ; Hunter, David K. ; Henning, Ian D.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Syst. Eng., Essex Univ., Colchester, UK
Abstract :
This paper proposes a congestion control scheme for optical packet switched networks, for use with edge smoothing and reduced core optical buffers. Simulation results indicate that it interacts favourably with TCP´s congestion control mechanism.
Keywords :
optical fibre networks; packet switching; telecommunication congestion control; transport protocols; TCP congestion control mechanism; core optical buffers; edge smoothing; optical packet switched networks; Intelligent networks; Optical buffering; Optical control; Optical fiber networks; Optical losses; Optical packet switching; Smoothing methods; Switches; TCPIP; Telecommunication traffic;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. OFC 2006
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-803-9
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2006.215762
