SC-TC trade-off in supra-high-speed packet switched networks

Queuing formulations for trading off nodal storage capacity (SC) with the incremental transmission capacity (TC) of links in supra-high-speed (>10/sup 8/ b/s) packet-switched communication networks are presented. The performance criterion used is the mean nodal forwarding time. The results are useful for designing all-optical packet-switching telecommunication networks where the designer needs to compute the amount of incremental TC (ITC) needed to eliminate a specified number of nodal buffers (SC) while preserving the mean nodal forwarding time.<
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