Optical burst switching a viable solution for terabit IP backbone.

Optical burst switching a viable solution for terabit IP backbone.

Wavelength-division multiplexing has emerged as an important physical layer technology. Optical transmission provides a physical layer capable of carrying bits at the speed at the order of a gigabit per second. Optical burst switching is proposed to overcome the shortcomings of conventional WDM depl...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE Network : the magazine of global information exchange 14, 6 (2000).
Main Author: Verma, S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
IP QoS mechanisms.
IP layer.
MAC layer.
MPLS-type technique.
OBS WDM transmission core.
SONET/SDH.
Burst assembly.
Burst scheduling.
Control packets.
Data bursts forwarding.
Electronic speed bottlenecks.
Label switched paths.
Medium access control layer.
Offset setting/traffic shaping.
Optical backbone.
Optical burst switching.
Optical transmission.
Physical layer technology.
Quality of service.
Terabit IP backbone.
Traffic engineering.
Wavelength routing.
Wavelength-division multiplexing.