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A unified study of burst assembly in optical burst switching networks

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This article presents a comprehensive study of burst assembly in optical burst switching (OBS) networks. This investigation aims to provide a unified study of burst assembly algorithms. After analyses of conventional assembly algorithms, we present an adaptive burst assembly algorithm: data-length time-lag product assembly algorithm. Numerical results show that the proposed algorithm takes the real-time traffic state into account to adapt burst length and its injected intervals. It obtains a more acceptable performance. Moreover, we investigated the impact of burst assembly applied at the edge of OBS networks. We analyze the Hurst parameter of the input traffic to the output traffic that results from the burst assembly. Two formulas are presented to describe changes of the Hurst parameter. Theoretical results are validated through extensive simulations in time-based, length-based, and adaptive assembly algorithms, respectively.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing, China

    Chi Yuan, Zhengbin Li, Yongqi He & Anshi Xu

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    Zhenrong Zhang

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Yuan, C., Zhang, Z., Li, Z. et al. A unified study of burst assembly in optical burst switching networks. Photon Netw Commun 21, 228–237 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11107-010-0295-6

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