ACRONYMS

3LIHON

3 Level Integrated Hybrid Optical Network

ACK

ACKnowledge

AF

Assured Forwarding

APTB

Aggregated Packet Transmission Buffer

AW

Additional Wavelengths

AWG

Array Waveguide Grating

BE

Best Effort

BER

Bit Error Rate

BH

Burst Header

BP

Buffer Pool

bps

bits per second

BPSK

Binary Phase-Shift Keying

BV

Bandwidth Variable

BvN

Birkhoff and von Neumann

CBR

Constant Bit Rate

COPS

Composite Optical Packet Scheduling

CoS

Class of Service

CPA

Composite Optical Packet Aggregation

CPDU

Control packet PDU

CRSA

Contention Resolution Scheduling Algorithm

CSMA/CA

Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance

CWDM

Coarse WDM

DA

Distribution-based bandwidth Access

DCF

Dispersion Compensated Fiber

DiffServ

Differentiated Services

DMUX

DeMultiplexer

DR

Deflection Routing

DRwBD

Deflection Routing with Backward Deflection

DRwoBD

Deflection Routing without Backward Deflection

DSF

Dispersion Shifted Fiber

DWDM

Dense WDM

EAP

Even Assignment Problem

EBvN

Efficient BvN

EBvN_FEC

EBvN with Filing Empty Cells

EDFA

Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier

EDFde

Even Density distribution through gauging Frame

EDFdi

Even Distance distribution through gauging Frame

EF

Expedited Forwarding

EON

Elastic Optical Network

ES

Edge Switch

FCFS

First-Come-First-Served

FD

Fair Dissemination distribution

FDL

Fiber Delay Line

FDM

Frequency Division Multiplexing

FEC

Forward Error Correction

FEC

Forwarding Equivalent Class (in MPLS networks)

FF

First-Fit

FIFO

First-In-First-Out

FRWC

Full Range Wavelength Converter

FSC

Fiber-Switch-Capable

FTTH

Fiber-To-The Home

FTWC

Fixed-input/Tunable-output WC

FWC

Fixed Wavelength Converter

GF

Gauging Frame

GMPLS

Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching

GST

Guaranteed Service Transport

HCT

High Class Transport

HOPSMAN

High-performance Optical Packet-Switched MAN

HOS

Hybrid Optical Switching

HOTARU

Hybrid Optical neTwork ARchitectUre

HP

High-Priority

HSWC

Hybrid Shared Wavelength Conversion

HTDM

Hybrid TDM

IAS

Impairment-Aware Scheduling

ID

IDentification

ILP

Integer Linear Programming

IP

Internet Protocol

IPD

Intentional Packet Dropping

IPT

Immediate Packet Transmission

IPTV

Internet Protocol TV

ISA1

Ingress Switch Architecture 1 for class-based OPS networks

ISA2

Ingress Switch Architecture 2 for class-based OPS networks

LB

Load Balanced distribution index

LCR

Local Cyclic Reservation

LCR-SD

Local Cyclic Reservation with Source-Destination

LDP

Label Distribution Protocol

LER

Label Edge Router

LGRR

Loan-Grant-based Round Robin

LP

Low-Priority

LRWC

Limited-Range Wavelength Converter

LSC

Lambda-Switch-Capable

LSP

Label Switching Path

LSR

Label Switching Router

MAC

Media Access Control

MAN

Metropolitan Area Network

MBS

Merit-Based Scheduling

MEMS

Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems

MF

Multi Fiber

MFAW

Multi Fiber + Additional Wavelengths

MI

Minimum Interference, Multilayer Interference

MING

Minimum Gap Queue

MINL

Minimum Length Queue

MP

Mid-Priority

MPBvN

Multi-Processor BvN

MPLS

Multi-Protocol Label Switching

M_PR

Modified Prioritized Retransmission

MPR

Multi-Path Routing

MQWS

Minimum Queue length Wavelength Selection

MUX

Multiplexer

MW-OPS

Multi-Wavelength Optical Packet Switching

NACK

Negative Acknowledge

NBR

Non-Blocking Receiver

NCPA

Non-Composite Optical Packet Aggregation

NCT

Normal Class Transport

NoD

No Deflection

NR

No Retransmission

NRP

Number-Rich Policy

NRPWC

Non-Recursive Parametric Wavelength Conversion

NWB-OPS

Non-Wavelength-Blocking OPS

NZDSF

Non-Zero Dispersion-Shifted Fiber

OBM

Optical Bandwidth Manager

OBS

Optical Burst Switching

OCGRR

Output-Controlled Grant-based Round Robin

OCS

Optical Circuit Switching

O/E/O

Optical/Electrical/Optical

OOFDM

Optical Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing

OP

Optical Packet

OpMiGua

Optical Migration capable network with service Guarantees

OPS

Optical Packet Switching

ORION

Overspill Routing in Optical Networks

OSNR

Optical Signal-to-Noise Ratio

OTDM

Optical Time Division Multiplexing

OVP

OVerspill Packet

OXC

all-Optical Cross-Connect switch

PA

Packet Aggregation

PAU

Packet Aggregation Unit

PDP

Preemptive Drop Policy

PDU

Protocol Data Unit

PLR

optical Packet Loss Rate

PMD

Polarization Mode Dispersion

POADM

Packet Optical Add and Drop Multiplexers

PQOC

Probabilistic Quota plus Credit

PR

Prioritized Retransmission

PS

Packet Scheduler

PSC

Packet-Switch-Capable

PSK

Phase Shift Keying

PTES

Packet Transmission based on Scheduling of Empty Time Slots

PWC

Parametric Wavelength Converter

QAM

Quadrature Amplitude Modulation

QoS

Quality of Service

QoT

Quality of Transmission

QPSK

Quadrature Phase-Shift Keying

RIB

Reservation Induced Blocking

RNENF

Random choice among Neither Empty Nor Full queues

ROADM

Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer

ROB

Removing of Overdue Blocks

RPWC

Recursive Parametric Wavelength Conversion

RR

Random Retransmission

RS

Reed-Solomon

RSA

Routing and Spectrum Assignment/Allocation

RSVP

Resource Reservation Protocol

SA

Spectrum Assignment/Allocation

SBvN

Separated BvN

SDU

Service Data Unit

SFD

Smoothed Flow Decomposition

SHP

Shortest Hop-Path

SLA

Service Level Agreement

SM/BE

Statistically Multiplexed Best Effort

SMF

Single-Mode Fiber

SM/RT

Statistically Multiplexed Real Time

SOA

Semiconductor Optical Amplifier

SPC WC

Single-Per-Channel Wavelength Converter

SPIL WC

Shared-Per-Input-Link Wavelength Converter

SPIW WC

Shared-Per-Input-Wavelength Wavelength Converter

SPL WC

Shared-Per-Link Wavelength Converter

SPN WC

Shared-Per-Node Wavelength Converter

SPOL WC

Shared-Per-Output-Link Wavelength Converter

SPOW WC

Shared-Per-Output-Wavelength Wavelength...