1: — When burst-mode data is used for interferometry, the burst cycles must be well-aligned, as well as the normal condition of having the Doppler centroids well-aligned. In this paper, we show the phase error effects of different burst lengths, various burst misalignments, and of receiver noise.

The blocking time distribution for an OBS router is obtained, under the assumption of Poisson-arriving bursts with Pareto, Gaussian and Exponential burst size distributions. Analytical expressions are provided as a function of number of wavelengths per port. Such expressions can be used to dimension Fiber Delay Lines (FDLs) and to perform end-to-end delay estimation. On the other hand, we show ...

Control plane load stems from burst control packets which need to be transmitted end-to-end over the control channel and further processed at core nodes of an Optical Burst Switching (OBS) network for reserving resources in advance for an upcoming burst. Burst assembly algorithms are generally designed without taking into consideration the control plane load they lead to. In the current article...

BACKGROUND Human muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) is usually measured as the number of pulse-synchronous bursts in multiunit mean voltage recordings. We recently suggested burst amplitude distribution as a more sensitive indicator of altered MSNA in congestive heart failure (CHF). Here, we test whether this distribution can discriminate between different conditions with increased MSNA b...