Title : 
Traffic shaping trends in optical packet/burst switching networks
         
        
            Author : 
Cano, Maria-Dolores ; Pavon-Marino, Pablo ; Ortuno-Manzanera, Alejandro ; Garcia-Haro, Joan
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Inf. Technol. & Commun., Tech. Univ. of Cartagena (UPCT), Cartagena
         
        
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This paper surveys a set of relevant techniques proposed for traffic shaping in backbone OBS/OPS networks. The work is intended to fuel the near future research in the topic the authors will conduct within BONE project.
         
        
            Keywords : 
optical burst switching; optical fibre networks; packet switching; telecommunication traffic; OBS netwoks; OPS networks; optical burst switching networks; optical packet networks; traffic shaping trends; Assembly systems; Burst switching; Delay; Optical buffering; Optical fiber networks; Optical losses; Optical packet switching; Optical wavelength conversion; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; OBS; OPS; traffic conditioning; traffic shaping;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Transparent Optical Networks, 2008. ICTON 2008. 10th Anniversary International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Athens
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-2625-6
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-2626-3
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICTON.2008.4598673