Delay and Congestion in High Speed Integrated Networks

Abstract

The rapid evolution in optical fiber communication has made terabit link speed a likely possibility for the future. The urge to integrate voice, data, and video within a single network, combined with increasingly image oriented data traffic, also suggest that terabit networks will someday be useful. In these integrated networks of the future, different users have very different requirements. We concentrate here on delay and discuss a number of approaches to provide negotiated upper bounds on delay. We also discuss the effect that higher speeds and optical fiber technology will have on these delay bounds.