Quality of Service in Optical Packet Switched Networks

This book is a comprehensive study on OPS networks, its architectures, and developed techniques for improving its quality of switching and managing quality of service.  The book includes:

• Introduction to OPS networks, OOFDM networks, GMPLS-enabled optical networks, QoS in OPS networks
• Hybrid contention avoidance/resolution schemes in both long-haul and metro optical networks
• Hybrid optical switching schemes

Akbar Ghaffarpour Rahbar is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Sahand University of Technology, Iran. Dr. Rahbar is also a Senior IEEE member and is currently on the Editorial Board of the Wiley Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies journal, and editor-in-chief of Journal of Nonlinear Systems in Electrical Engineering. He has written numerous book chapters and papers on the subject. His research interests are optical networks, IPTV, VANET, Traffic management in high speed networks, Network Modeling and Analysis & Performance Evaluation.