This paper proposed a packet assembly mechanism and investigated its impact on the network performance under self-similar traffic. The simulation results have demonstrated that this mechanism can serve as a traffic shaper to reduce the network-wide packet-loss rate efficiently. By incorporating the contention resolution schemes in wavelength, time, and space domains, traffic shaping leads to a several-fold benefit of performance improvement at the expense of relatively small increases in delay. This work was partially funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Air Force Research Laboratory under agreement number F30602-00-2-0543, by the National Science Foundation under grant number ANI-998665.
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