Highly dynamic Destination-Sequenced Distance-Vector routing (DSDV) for mobile computers
SIGCOMM '94 Proceedings of the conference on Communications architectures, protocols and applications
Optical burst switching (OBS) - a new paradigm for an optical Internet
Journal of High Speed Networks - Special issue on optical networking
A capacity analysis for the IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol
Wireless Networks
Contention-Aware Admission Control for Ad Hoc Networks
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
A Simple Paradigm for Supporting the New Generation of Internet Based on WLAN over OBS
ICWMC '07 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications
Novel reinforcement learning-based approaches to reduce loss probability in buffer-less OBS networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Wireless mesh networks: a survey
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
EUNICE'07 Proceedings of the 13th open European summer school and IFIP TC6.6 conference on Dependable and adaptable networks and services
Metropolitan area packet-switched WDM networks: A survey on ring systems
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
A service architecture for fixed and mobile convergence
Computer Communications
Control architecture in optical burst-switched WDM networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Performance comparison of OBS and SONET in metropolitan ring networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
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Wireless mesh networks (WMN) have attracted increasing attention from the research community as a high-performance and low-cost solution to last-mile broadband Internet access. In the other side, optical burst switching (OBS) is a promising metropolitan solution [1] that uses optical fiber with burst switching paradigm. In this paper, we propose a novel Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) architecture, called Optical Burst Wireless Mesh Architecture (OBWMA) which integrates WMN at the user access side and OBS at the core of the MAN. OBWMA aims to combine advantages of both WMNs and OBS networks, such as large coverage at low cost and bandwidth availability. We specify the details of the interconnection and the internetworking of WMNs and the OBS network in OBWMA. Moreover, we develop an analytical model to compute the end-to-end delay in OBWMA in order to support flow requests with delay constraints. Furthermore, we propose: (1) a bandwidth provisioning scheme for the WMN part (WBP); (2) a bandwidth provisioning scheme for the OBS part (WPBP); (3) an adaptive burst assembly scheme (AHBA) at the border between WMN and OBS; and (4) a control bridge (CB) that ensures Quality of Service (QoS) mapping at the border between the WMN and OBS. Simulation results using ns-2 demonstrate the feasibility of OBWMA, the accuracy of the proposed analytical model and the effectiveness of WBP, WPBP and AHBA to provide QoS provisioning for the converged network.