Introduction to algorithms
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Scalable WDM access network architecture based on photonic slot routing
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Optical burst switching (OBS) - a new paradigm for an optical Internet
Journal of High Speed Networks - Special issue on optical networking
High-performance communication networks (2nd ed.)
High-performance communication networks (2nd ed.)
Optimal smoothing schedules for real-time streams (extended abstract)
Proceedings of the nineteenth annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing
An optimal real-time algorithm for planar convex hulls
Communications of the ACM
Optical networks: a practical perspective
Optical networks: a practical perspective
Broadband Network Traffic: Performance Evaluation and Design of Broadband Multiservice Networks: Final Report of Action Cost 242
Self-Similar Network Traffic and Performance Evaluation
Self-Similar Network Traffic and Performance Evaluation
The Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms
The Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms
Traffic Management in Multi-service Optical Network
ICN '01 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Networking-Part 1
End-to-end delay service in high-speed packet networks using earliest deadline first scheduling
End-to-end delay service in high-speed packet networks using earliest deadline first scheduling
Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Open issues in router buffer sizing
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Update on buffer sizing in internet routers
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Online smoothing of variable-bit-rate streaming video
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Optimal multiplexing on a single link: delay and buffer requirements
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Synthesis of accurate fractional Gaussian noise by filtering
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Online variable-bit-rate video traffic smoothing
Computer Communications
WASPNET: a wavelength switched packet network
IEEE Communications Magazine
Advances in photonic packet switching: an overview
IEEE Communications Magazine
Optical routing of asynchronous, variable length packets
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
The European IST project DAVID: a viable approach toward optical packet switching
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
On the use of fractional Brownian motion in the theory of connectionless networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Perspectives on router buffer sizing: recent results and open problems
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Service differentiating supporting output circuiting shared optical buffer architecture
Photonic Network Communications
Anomalous loss performance for mixed real-time and TCP traffic in routers with very small buffers
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Sharing small optical buffers between real-time and TCP traffic
Optical Switching and Networking
High-performance implementation of in-network traffic pacing for small-buffer networks
Computer Communications
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In the absence of a cost-effective technology for storing optical signals, emerging optical packet switched (OPS) networks are expected to have severely limited buffering capability. To mitigate the performance degradation resulting from small buffers, this paper proposes that optical edge nodes "pace" the injection of traffic into the OPS core. Our contributions relating to pacing in OPS networks are three-fold: first, we develop real-time pacing algorithms of poly-logarithmic complexity that are feasible for practical implementation in emerging high-speed OPS networks. Second, we provide an analytical quantification of the benefits of pacing in reducing traffic burstiness and traffic loss at a link with very small buffers. Third, we show via simulations of realistic network topologies that pacing can significantly reduce network losses at the expense of a small and bounded increase in end-to-end delay for real-time traffic flows. We argue that the loss-delay tradeoff mechanism provided by pacing can be instrumental in overcoming the performance hurdle arising from the scarcity of buffers in OPS networks.