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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2008.4528247
