On optical burst switching and self-similar traffic

01 March 2000

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In this letter we consider burst switching for very high speed routing in the nest generation Internet backbone, In this scenario. Internet Protocol (LP) packets to a given destination are collected in Bursts at the network edges. We propose a burst assembly mechanism that can reduce the traffic autocorrelation or degree of self-similarity, and at the same time keep the delay due to burst formation limited at the network edges.