A Scheduling Procedure for Control Signaling in an Optical Burst Switched Network

摘要

In this paper we examine a scheduling algorithm for burst switched networks, based on a policy to aggregate bursts at the edge routers of a network. We also consider aggregation as well as scheduling of bursts from a QoS perspective. We guarantee delay based QoS to individual packets for end-to-end flows. We also describe a new aggregation process that assembles bursts from packets and determines both the appropriate size of the burst as well as the optimum time at which a control packet needs to be sent to reserve bandwidth.