The Markov-modulated Poisson process (MMPP) cookbook
Performance Evaluation
Optical burst switching (OBS) - a new paradigm for an optical Internet
Journal of High Speed Networks - Special issue on optical networking
A simulation study of optical burst switching and access protocols for WDM ring networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
ICNS '06 Proceedings of the International conference on Networking and Services
FARE: An efficient integrated MAC protocol for differentiated services in WDM metro rings
Computer Communications
All-optical WDM multi-rings with differentiated QoS
IEEE Communications Magazine
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Control architecture in optical burst-switched WDM networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Efficient QoS support in a slotted multihop WDM metro ring
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
A slotted MAC protocol for efficient bandwidth utilization in WDM metropolitan access ring networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Optical burst switching: a new area in optical networking research
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
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The rapid evolution of networks has been driven by new advances in enabling technologies and the explosive growth of Internet traffic. Optical Burst Switching (OBS) is not only cost-effective, but also provides high throughput, high bandwidth utilization, and low transmission latency. These benefits make OBS a viable solution for next-generation Metro Area Networks (MANs) in which the traffic models will be changed more dramatically than in today's networks. This paper employs Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) technology to construct a loss-free OBS metro ring architecture designated as the Collision-free Optic-burst Ring Network (CORNet). The proposed architecture ensures a collision-free transmission of data bursts, while retaining the advantage of the statistical multiplexing provided by conventional OBS networks. A novel distributed Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol to integrate the support of differentiated service and fairness access in CORNet is presented. The proposed Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning mechanism adopts a bandwidth-reservation approach which combines real-time transmission establishment and termination routines. Furthermore, a credit-based fairness control scheme is designed to guarantee the transmission fairness of best-effort traffic. Simulation results are presented to demonstrate that the proposed CORNet system provides good performance for real-time traffic while simultaneously providing significant performance improvements for best-effort traffic.