@article{Wang2013Evaluating,
author = {M. Wang and S. Li and Eric W. M. Wong and M.
Zukerman},
title = {Evaluating {OBS} by Effective
Utilization},
journal = {IEEE Communications Letters},
volume = {17},
number = {3},
pages = {576--579},
month = {Mar.},
year = {2013},
abstract = {In optical burst switching (OBS) networks, bursts
may be dumped before they reach their destinations due to contention.
Accordingly, we classify trunk utilization into effective and ineffective
utilizations used for bursts that reach and do not reach their destinations,
respectively. As a benchmark for OBS, we consider an idealized version of
optical circuit switching (OCS), designated I-OCS, that does not incur
ineffective utilization. In this paper, we study the efficiency of OBS versus
I-OCS networks for selected scenarios to facilitate the understanding of
performance implications of effective and ineffective utilizations.}
}