—We propose a systematic method to determine the lower bound for internal buffering of practical CIOQ switching systems. To this end we introduce a deterministic traffic scenario that stresses the global stability of finite output queues. We demonstrate its usefulness by dimensioning the buffer capacity of the CIOQ under such traffic patterns. Compliance with this property maximizes the perform...

This paper investigates firms’ decisions to reimburse consumers’ switching costs in network industries. Prior literature finds that switching costs incentivize firms to harvest their locked-in consumers rather than price aggressively for market dominance, thereby resulting in a lower market concentration. Using a dynamic duopoly model, we show that this result is reversed if firms have the opti...

This paper presents recent progress made in the development of an optical packet and circuit integrated network. From the viewpoint of end users, this is a single network that provides both high-speed, inexpensive services and deterministic-delay, low-data-loss services according to the users’ usage scenario. From the viewpoint of network service providers, this network provides large switching...

Packet switching offers attractive advantages over the more conventional circuit-switched scheme, namely, flexibility in setting up user connections and more efficient use of resources after the c o n n q p is established. However, if user demands are allowed to exceed the system Capacity. unpleasant congestion effects occur which rapidly neutralize the delay and efficiency advantages. Congesti...

This paper presents a novel Grid network scenario based on an optical infrastructure using optical burst switching. The functional blocks required are identified as Core Router the Grid User Network Interface and the Grid Resource Network Interface. The details of the associated challenges in terms of functionality and technology are discussed and solutions are proposed.

Traditional switching techniques need hundredor thousand-MIPS processing power within switches to support Gbit/s transmission rates available today. These techniques anchor their decision-making on control information within transmitted frames and thus must resolve routes at the speed in which frames are being pumped into switches. Isochronets can potentially switch at any transmission rate by ...