Quality of Service in Optical Packet Switched Networks

This book is a comprehensive study on OPS networks, its architectures, and developed techniques for improving its quality of switching and managing quality of service. The book includes:

• Introduction to OPS networks, OOFDM networks, GMPLS-enabled optical networks, QoS in OPS networks
• Hybrid contention avoidance/resolution schemes in both long-haul and metro optical networks
• Hybrid optical switching schemes

Keywords: Optical Packet Switching; Quality of Service; Contention Resolution; Contention Avoidance; Hybrid Contention Resolution/Avoidance; OPS in Ring Networks; OPS in Star Networks; Overlaid Star; Hybrid Optical Networks; optical switching network; optical networks; optical network design and planning; optical packet ring engineering; uscumlic; ieee; ieee book; ieee series, Networking / Security, Networking / Security