QoS burstification for optical burst switched WDM networks

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a QoS burstification (QBT) mechanism on the basis of a new notion window. The QBT mechanism efficiently emulates the burst behavior by exerting simple FIFO service within the window and weight-proportional service at the window boundary. As will be shown, QBT achieves fairness and mean-burstification-delay guarantees among various traffic classes.