Quality of Service in Optical Burst Switched Networks

ISBN-13: 9780387341606 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 198 str.

Kee Chaing Chua; Mohan Gurusamy; Yong Liu

Opis

Optical Burst Switching (OBS) is a very promising switching technique to support huge bandwidth requirements in optical backbone networks that use Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM). This book will be devoted to a comprehensive discussion on the quality of service (QoS) issues and mechanisms to provide QoS in OBS networks. This book is intended for researchers, senior undergraduate and graduate students in the field of optical networking in particular, and networking in general.

Spis treści

Node-Based QoS Improvement Mechanisms.- Relative QoS Differentiation.- Absolute QoS Differentiation.- Edge-to-Edge QoS Mechanisms.- Variants of OBS and Research Directions.

Blurb

Quality of Service in Optical Burst Switched Networks is a broad review and reference for researchers and professionals of Quality of Service (QoS) support in Optical Burst Switching (OBS) networks. The authors start with an overview of OBS architecture, then categorize and discuss existing QoS support in OBS including relative and absolute models, mechanisms for supporting multiple traffic classes, edge-to-edge provisioning, and other non-mainstream mechanisms.

Optical networking professionals will find the literature review as an up-to-date coverage of topics which is both timely and helpful.