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On Delay Performance and Burst Assembly for Wireless Mesh and Optical Burst Switching Converged Metro Area Network

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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. On the other side, Optical Burst Switching (OBS) is a promising access technology 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 a Control Bridge (CB) that ensures Quality of Service (QoS) mapping at the border between the WMN and the OBS parts. Also, we propose a burst assembly scheme, called Adaptive Hybrid Burst Assembly scheme (AHBA). Simulation results using ns-2 demonstrate the feasibility of OBWMA and the validity of our analytical model.

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    Jihene Rezgui, Abdeltouab Belbekkouche & Abdelhakim Hafid

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The research reported in this manuscript has been supported in part by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies (FQRNT) and Bell Canada.

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Rezgui, J., Belbekkouche, A. & Hafid, A. On Delay Performance and Burst Assembly for Wireless Mesh and Optical Burst Switching Converged Metro Area Network. Mobile Netw Appl 16, 122–133 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-010-0249-3

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