OPTICAL COMMUNICATION NETWORK, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently transfer burst data without the need for setting a cut- through path in advance and to reduce a buffer capacity of a relay node. SOLUTION: Each node sequentially sets the cut-through path by detecting a head packet of the burst data when the burst data arrive. The transmitter side edge node starts transfer of the burst data with a prescribed delay time between the head packet and its succeeding packet in this case. The prescribed delay time is equivalent to a time being a total sum of cut-through path setting processing times in a plurality of relay nodes passed through between the transmitter side edge node and the receiver side edge node.