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A novel optical buffering architecture for Optical Packet Switching (OPS) networks is proposed in this article. The architecture which adopts a fiber-sharing mechanism aims at solving the problem of using a large number of fiber delay lines that are used to solve resource contention in the core node in OPS networks. The new architecture employs fewer fiber delay lines compared to other simple architectures, but can achieve the same performance. Simulation results and analysis show that the new architecture can decrease packet loss probability effectively and achieve reasonable performance in average packet delay.
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Wang, Ry., Zhang, J., Guo, F. et al. An effective buffering architecture for optical packet switching networks. Photon Netw Commun 16, 239–243 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11107-008-0135-0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11107-008-0135-0