Analysis of the behavior of self-similar traffic in a QoS-aware architecture for integrating WiMAX and GEPON

Journal of Optical Communications and Networking

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 259-273

  Obele, Brownson O ^a,b   Iftikhar, Mohsin ^c   Manipornsut, Suparek ^d   Kang, Minho ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Network RandD Laboratory of Korea Telecom (KT)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE THAI CHAMBER OF COMMERCE   (Thailand)

Author keywords

GEPON; Optical wireless converged networks; QoS; Queuing delay; WiMAX

Indexed keywords

ACCESS NETWORK; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; DATA TRAFFIC; END USERS; GEPON; GIGABIT ETHERNET PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORKS; INTEGRATED ARCHITECTURE; INTERNET MEASUREMENT; LOAD CONDITION; LONG RANGE DEPENDENT; OPTICAL WIRELESS CONVERGED NETWORKS; PACKET LOSS RATES; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; QOS; QOS ARCHITECTURE; QOS PARAMETERS; QUEUING DELAY; SELF-SIMILAR; SELF-SIMILAR TRAFFIC; TRAFFIC CLASS; WAITING-TIME; WIRELESS ACCESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS DATA; WORLDWIDE INTEROPERABILITY FOR MICROWAVE ACCESS;

BANDWIDTH; CHANNEL ESTIMATION; ETHERNET; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; INTEROPERABILITY; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PASSIVE NETWORKS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; QUEUEING NETWORKS; QUEUEING THEORY; WIMAX;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 70350618595     PISSN: 19430620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOCN.1.000259     Document Type: Article

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