Optical burst switching (OBS) - a new paradigm for an optical Internet
Journal of High Speed Networks - Special issue on optical networking
A performance model for an asynchronous optical buffer
Performance Evaluation - Performance 2005
Analyzing a degenerate buffer with general inter-arrival and service times in discrete time
Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications
A unified model for synchronous and asynchronous FDL buffers allowing closed-form solution
Performance Evaluation
Tracing an optical buffer's performance: an effective approach
NET-COOP'07 Proceedings of the 1st EuroFGI international conference on Network control and optimization
Optical packet switching in core networks: between vision and reality
IEEE Communications Magazine
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Providing a photonic alternative to the current electronic switching in the backbone, optical packet switching (OPS) and optical burst switching (OBS) require optical buffering. Optical buffering exploits delays in long optical fibres; an optical buffer is implemented by routing packets through a set of fibre delay lines (FDLs). Previous studies pointed out that, in comparison with electronic buffers, optical buffering suffers from an additional performance degradation. This contribution builds on this observation by studying optical buffer performance under more general traffic assumptions. Features of the optical buffer model under consideration include a Markovian arrival process, general burst sizes and a finite set of fibre delay lines of arbitrary length. Our algorithmic approach yields important performance measures such as the packet loss rate and the mean delay with a reasonable amount of computational time.