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