IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Access protocols for an efficient and fair packet-switched IP-over-WDM metro network
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
INFOCOM'96 Proceedings of the Fifteenth annual joint conference of the IEEE computer and communications societies conference on The conference on computer communications - Volume 3
Advances in photonic packet switching: an overview
IEEE Communications Magazine
IP-centric control and management of optical transport networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
The application of optical packet switching in future communication networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
IEEE Communications Magazine
Resolving the fairness issue in bus-based optical access networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
HORNET: a packet-over-WDM multiple access metropolitan area ring network
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Dense wavelength division multiplexing networks: principles and applications
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
Wide-area Internet traffic patterns and characteristics
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
Performance of multicast in WDM slotted ring networks
Computer Communications
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In this contribution, we consider a novel approach for efficiently supporting IP packets directly into a slotted optical wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) layer with several quality of service (QoS) requirements. The approach is based on performing IP packet aggregation at fixed time intervals before the optical conversion phase. We introduce an analytical model which allows us to evaluate the effectiveness of the aggregation technique. Also, the effect of self-similar traffic is discussed by using extensive simulations. We prove that metropolitan area networks are candidate applications of our proposed technique, where TDMA behavior, which ensures excellent fairness between network nodes, can be reached, and high level of bandwidth efficiency is achieved. The latter is a crucial parameter which in the current standard approach (where no aggregation is allowed), however, remains very low due to the asynchronous nature of IP traffic.