caa a22 4500 445870893 CHVBK 20180317145511.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11107-011-0317-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11107-011-0317-z Node pacing for small optical RAM-buffered packet-switching networks [Elektronische Daten] [Onur Alparslan, Shin'ichi Arakawa, Masayuki Murata] One of the difficulties with optical packet switched (OPS) networks is buffering optical packets in the network. The only available solution that can currently be used for buffering in the optical domain is using long fiber lines called fiber delay lines (FDLs), which have severe limitations. Moreover, the research on optical RAM presently being done is not expected to achieve a large capacity soon. However, the burstiness of Internet traffic causes high packet drop rates and low utilization in very small buffered OPS networks. We therefore propose a new node-based pacing algorithm for decreasing burstiness. We show that by applying some simple pacing at the edge or core backbone nodes, the performance of very small optical RAM buffered core OPS networks with variable-length packets can be notably increased. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2011 Small buffer nationallicence OPS nationallicence Optical RAM nationallicence TCP nationallicence Pacing nationallicence Alparslan Onur Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, 1-5 Yamadaoka, 565-0871, Suita, Osaka, Japan aut Arakawa Shin'ichi Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, 1-5 Yamadaoka, 565-0871, Suita, Osaka, Japan aut Murata Masayuki Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, 1-5 Yamadaoka, 565-0871, Suita, Osaka, Japan aut Photonic Network Communications Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 22/2(2011-10-01), 172-179 1387-974X 22:2<172 2011 22 11107 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11107-011-0317-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11107-011-0317-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Alparslan Onur Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, 1-5 Yamadaoka, 565-0871, Suita, Osaka, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Arakawa Shin'ichi Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, 1-5 Yamadaoka, 565-0871, Suita, Osaka, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Murata Masayuki Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, 1-5 Yamadaoka, 565-0871, Suita, Osaka, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Photonic Network Communications Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 22/2(2011-10-01), 172-179 1387-974X 22:2<172 2011 22 11107 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer