Burst-Switched Optical Networks Supporting Legacy and Future Service Types

Focusing on the principles and the paradigm of OBS an overview addressing expectable performance and application issues is presented. Proposals on OBS were published over a decade and the presented techniques spread into many directions. The paper comprises discussions of several challenges that OBS...

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Main Authors: Gerald Franzl, M. F. Hayat, Tomasz Holynski, A. V. Manolova
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2011-01-01
Series:Journal of Computer Networks and Communications
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/310517