Title : 
Performance of traffic aggregation versus segregation for Optical Flow Switching networks
         
        
            Author : 
Qian, Zhengfeng ; Li, Huadong ; Tang, Runhong ; Cheung, Kwok Wai
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Inf. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin, China
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Short flows are important for Optical Flow Switching (OFS) networks but they suffer from severe round-trip-delay penalty. We show that the OFS performance for short flows can be improved by over 50% using traffic segregation or aggregation.
         
        
            Keywords : 
optical fibre networks; optical switches; telecommunication traffic; optical flow switching networks; round-trip-delay penalty; traffic aggregation; traffic segregation; Computer vision; Delay; Image motion analysis; Optical fiber networks; Optical switches; Payloads; Throughput;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Information Photonics and Optical Communications (IPOC), 2011 International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Jurong West
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4673-0713-0
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
978-1-4673-0711-6
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/IPOC.2011.6122860