IEEE transactions on communications, 2011-09, Vol.59 (9), p.2574-2584
2011
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- On the Myths of Optical Burst Switching
- Ist Teil von
- IEEE transactions on communications, 2011-09, Vol.59 (9), p.2574-2584
- Ort / Verlag
- New York, NY: IEEE
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2011
- Quelle
- IEEE
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- This paper discusses merits and drawbacks of the Optical Burst Switching (OBS) paradigm, which received so much attention by the academic research community. Since the topic is hot, and given the several flavors of OBS available in the literature, we first define what we mean by OBS. Then, we carefully design a reference scenario and a set of evaluation experiments that can be used to obtain quantitative answers to interesting questions in a repeatable way. Within this framework, we motivate our skepticism towards two frequent assertions about the OBS paradigm: its ability to (i) exploit the network bandwidth more efficiently than Optical Circuit Switching (OCS) alternatives, and (ii) to efficiently solve contentions without optical buffers.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0090-6778eISSN: 1558-0857DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2011.063011.100192Titel-ID: cdi_ieee_primary_5957240
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Applied sciences, Bandwidth, Buffers, Bursting, Circuits, Communities, Delay, Exact sciences and technology, Networks, Optical buffering, optical burst switching, optical circuit switching, Optical fiber communications, Optical fiber networks, Optical packet switching, Optical switches, Optical telecommunications, Optical transmitters, Payloads, Switching, Switching and signalling, Switching theory, Systems, networks and services of telecommunications, Telecommunications, Telecommunications and information theory