Tarek S. El-Bawab

TL;DR: This paper examines the future potential of OPS in the core network by discussing this switching approach and the current status of a number of its enabling technologies and sees that optical packet switching may be deployed in the long-term future subject to satisfaction of three main conditions/developments.

TL;DR: Simulation studies suggest that more than 50% reduction in dropping probability and approximately 40% improvement in channel utilization is reachable at 0.8 load, and the new scheduling technique has the ability to predict and control service performance differentiation among defined service classes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an approach and method for scheduling transmission of data bursts in an OBS network, where a router is used to collect a group of BHPs arriving during a BHP collecting period and classifying each BHP of the group into corresponding baskets depending on the data channel scheduling window of its corresponding data burst.

TL;DR: This work introduces a new scheme called OBS group scheduling, in which a burst is represented by an interval of time and graph theory is applied to schedule as many non-overlapping intervals as possible onto the channel time line.

TL;DR: In this paper, an approach and method for supporting operations and maintenance (OAM) functionality in an OBS network is described, where at least one wavelength in each of the links comprises a reference wavelength for providing a wavelength reference to which light generating devices in the network lock.