Analysis for the Effect of a Hybrid Optical Packet Assembly Algorithm on Self-similar Traffic Shaping

摘要

Traffic shaping is expected to be a feasible solution to alleviating the adverse influence of self-similar traffic in optical packet-switched networks. The paper provides a full analysis for the effect of a hybrid optical packet assembly algorithm on the self-similar traffic shaping. Our simulation study shows that optical packet assembly hardly reduces the self-similarity, but it can perform traffic shaping by improving other key traffic characteristics of interest in network performance evaluation, including the short-term correlation and the marginal distribution of traffic process.