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The emerging Telemedicine and Telesurgery technologies
allow patients to share medical experts remotely through
communication networks. However, network bandwidth,
network latency and jitter (variation of latency), are the
obstacles to the widespread use of this technology remotely.
Optical Burst Switching (OBS) networks greatly expand
network bandwidth in existing network infrastructure by
utilizing multiple DWDM channels within a single fiber,
enabling high bandwidth applications. However, the burst
assembly process in OBS networks introduces latency and
jitter, making it unsuitable for high bandwidth, latency
sensitive applications such as telesurgery and telemedicine. In
this paper, we propose a content aware burst assembly scheme
which dynamically adjusts the burst assembly parameters based
on the content being assembled. The proposed content aware
burst assembly minimizes the latency and jitter within a video
frame, as well as across the left-view and right-view frames for
3D vision generation. Simulation results have shown that the
proposed scheme can effectively reduce the latency and jitter
experienced by video streams, making OBS a promising
candidate for supporting telesurgery and telemedicine
applications.
