Approaches to optical internet packet switching

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 116-126

  Hunter, David K ^a   Andonovic, Ivan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; INTERNET; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PACKET SWITCHING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

CIRCUIT SWITCHED PATHS; INTERNET PROTOCOL; NETWORK NODE INTERFACES;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0034272054     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/35.868150     Document Type: Article

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