On optical burst switching and self-similar traffic

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 98-100

  Ge, An ^a   Callegati, Franco ^b   Tamil, Lakshman S ^a,c  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c Yotta Networks Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERNET; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; PACKET NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

CONTROL PACKET; INTERNET PROTOCOL PACKETS; OPTICAL BURST SWITCHING; OPTICAL CORE ROUTERS; SELF SIMILAR TRAFFIC;

SWITCHING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033889815     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4234.831037     Document Type: Article

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