Author: Rezgui Jihene Belbekkouche Abdeltouab Hafid Abdelhakim
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
ISSN: 1383-469X
Source: Mobile Networks and Applications, Vol.16, Iss.1, 2011-02, pp. : 122-133
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Abstract
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN) have attracted increasing attention from the research community as a high-performance and low-cost solution to last-mile broadband Internet access. On the other side, Optical Burst Switching (OBS) is a promising access technology that uses optical fiber with burst switching paradigm. In this paper, we propose a novel Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) architecture, called