Queueing formulations are presented for trading nodal storage capacity (SC) with the incremental transmission capacity (TC) of links in supra-high-speed (i.e., >10/sup 8//bps) packet-switched communication networks. 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. >
['Bhumip Khasnabish', 'Majid Ahmadi', 'Myron Hlynka', 'Malayappan Shridhar']
Trading nodal storage capacity with incremental transmission capacity