We present a detailed analysis of the loss performance in an optical buffer having access to a single outgoing channel. Such a system consisting of a number of fiber delay lines differs significantly from a conventional electronic buffer, in that only a discrete set of delays can be realized for contention resolution. This leads to an underutilization of the channel capacity, which reduces over...

This paper extends a stochastic theory for buffer fill distribution for multiple “on” and “off” sources to a mobile environment. Queue fill distribution is described by a set of differential equations assuming sources alternate asynchronously between exponentially distributed periods in “on” and “off” states. This paper includes the probabilities that mobile sources have links to a given queue....