Towards a bufferless optical internet

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 2817-2833

  Wong, Eric W M ^a   Andrew, Lachlan L H ^b   Cui, Tony ^c   Moran, Bill ^c   Zalesky, Andrew ^c,d   Tucker, Rodney S ^c   Zukerman, Moshe ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bufferless optical packet switching (OPS); dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) network; TCP

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODELS; DENSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; EXTRAPOLATION; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PACKET SWITCHING; SWITCHING NETWORKS; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

BUFFER REQUIREMENTS; DIRECT SIMULATION; EXTRAPOLATION TECHNIQUES; MEMORY REQUIREMENTS; OPTICAL PACKET SWITCHING; PACKET DISCARDING; PACKET LOSS RATES; WAVELENGTH CHANNELS;

PACKET NETWORKS;

EID: 77953295118     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2009.2017211     Document Type: Article

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