A new burst assembly technique for supporting QoS in optical burst switching networks

This letter proposes a new burst assembly technique for supporting QoS in optical burst switching (OBS) networks. It consists of the adaptive-threshold burst assembly mechanism and QoS-based random offset-time scheme. The assembly mechanism, which is fit well to multi-class burst assembly, not only matches with IP QoS mechanism based on packet classification, and also utilizes fairly and efficiently assembly capacity. Based on token-bucket model and burst segment selective discard (BSSD), the offset-time scheme can smooth the traffic to support OBS QoS. The simulation results show that the technique can improve the performance in terms of packet loss probability (PLP).     

United assembly algorithm for optical burst switching

Optical burst switching (OBS) is a promising optical switching technology. The burst assembly algorithm controls burst assembly, which significantly impacts performance of OBS network. This paper provides a new assembly algorithm, united assembly algorithm, which has more practicability than conventional algorithms. In addition, some factors impacting selections of parameters of this algorithm are discussed and the performance of this algorithm is studied by computer simulation.     

光突发交换中交换矩阵配置时间的影响研究

光突发交换是近几年出现的一种很有前途的交换技术。在光突发交换网络的核心节点中,光交换矩阵是一个关键部件,其配置时间影响到光突发交换网络的性能。这种影响表现在对数据信道可用时间施加了限制。在考虑光交换矩阵配置时间的基础上给出了修正后的LAUC算法,并通过计算机仿真研究了这种配置时间对光突发交换性能的影响。结果表明,光交换矩阵配置时间的增大会导致输出数据信道利用率的降低,进而增大了数据丢失率。     

Analysis of burst/packet assembly techniques in high-speed optical switching network

In the Optical Burst Switching (OBS) Network, the burst assembly technique is one of the challenging issues in the implementation of the system. It has the influence on the burst characteristic, which gives an impact on the network performance. Burst assembly is the process of assembling incoming data from the higher layer into bursts at the ingress edge node of the OBS network. The burst assembly mechanism must then place these packets into bursts based on some assembly policy. In this paper, the OBS system performance has been observed in simulated 12-node network based on Just-Enough-Time (JET) reservation protocol with various burst assembly techniques under the standard drop policy (DP) and the segmentation policy for contention resolution. The simulation results show that the performance of the proposed Adaptive-Threshold with Fixed Maximum Time Limitation (ATH-FMTL) burst assembly scheme is better than conventional burst assembly schemes in terms of loss probability and average assembly delay. Also, the proposed scheme avoids a sudden increase in the burst size and makes the burst sent out smoother as compared to conventional schemes.     

A novel optical burst switching architecture for high speed networks

A novel optical burst switching （OBS） high speed network architecture has been proposed. To verify its feasibility and evaluate its performance, just-enough-time （JET） signaling has been considered as a high performance protocol. In the proposed architecture, to avoid burst losses, firstly, a short-prior- confirmation-packet （SPCP） is sent over the control channel that simulates the events that the actual packet will experience. Once SPCP detects a drop at any of the intermediate nodes, the actual packet is not sent but the process repeats. In order to increase network utilization, cost effectiveness and to overcome some limitations of conventional OBS, inherent codes （e.g., orthogonal optical codes （OOC））, which are codified only in intensity, has been used. Through simulations, it shows that a decrease in burst loss probability, cost effectiveness and a gain in processing time are obtained when optical label processing is used as compared with electronic processing.     

Performance analysis of an integrated scheme in optical burst switching high-speed networks

A new integrated scheme based on resource-reservation and adaptive network flow routing to alleviate contention in optical burst switching networks is proposed. The objective of the proposed scheme is to reduce the overall burst loss in the network and at the same time to avoid the packet out-of-sequence arrival problem. Simulations are carried out to assess the feasibility of the proposed scheme. Its performance is compared with that of contention resolution schemes based on conventional routing. Through extensive simulations, it is shown that the proposed scheme not only provides significantly better burst loss performance than the basic equal proportion and hop-length based traffic routing algorithms, but also is void of any packet re-orderings.     

A maximum-efficiency-first multi-path route selection strategy for optical burst switching networks

In this paper, the impact of a path selection on other existing paths in optical burst switching (OBS) networks is studied by analyzing the contention among different traffic streams and the interaction between the route selection and traffic load balance. The results show that there exists a mutual reinforcement interaction among the traffic load of a path, the path burst loss ratio and the contention ability of the path when burst loss ratio based multi-path selection strategies are adopted, which may increase the unbalance of traffic and lead to severe congestion further. A maximum-efficiency-first multi-path selection strategy, which considers the performance of the burst flows and the impact of a path selection on existing OBS paths at the same time by a combined metric of route efficiency, is proposed to maximize the utility of the burst flows and minimize the increment of lost throughput on the path. The performance of the proposed multi-path selection strategy is evaluated through simulation. The results show that the presented strategy obviously outperforms the least burst loss ratio strategy and shortest path first strategy in terms of the burst loss ratio in the practical unbalanced background traffic, especially when the network is heavily loaded.     

Feed-forward control of SOA gain for power equalization in optical burst switching networks

We evaluate the performance of a novel technique to equalize power variation between optical bursts using feed-forward control of semiconductor optical amplifier gain. The technique enables large dynamic range power equalization of incoming optical bursts with up to 10 dB power difference. Moreover, the technique can remove SOA-induced waveform distortion. We achieve more than 4 dB sensitivity improvement with equalized burst power.     

Design of assembly control algorithm based on burst-size feedback for optical burst switching network

A novel assembly control algorithm named burst-size feedback adaptive assembly period （BFAAP） is proposed. The major difference between BFAAP and other similar adaptive assembly algorithms is that the control curve of BFAAP is dynamically adjusted according to the feedback of outgoing burst size. BFAAP is compared with two typical algorithms fixed assembly period （FAP） and min-burst length max- assembly period （MBMAP） in simulation in terms of burst size distribution and assembly period. Moreover, the transmission control protocol （TCP） performance over BFAAP is also considered and simulated.     

An improvement over TCP Vegas to enhance its performance in optical burst switching networks

Optical Review - The demand for high bandwidth on the Internet is growing drastically, and one of the solutions for tackling this problem is using optical networks. Burst switching is one of the...     

Investigations on burst length in optical burst switched networks

In this paper, we investigate the performance of optical burst switched networks for erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) and semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs). We show that EDFAs are more suitable for burst switching as compared to SOAs. We further investigate the burst length for 18, 24.6 and 55 km optical switched network. It is observed that burst length should neither be very small nor very large. If the burst length is small, throughput will be less, and if the burst length is very large, delay will be very large. This is due to higher wait times incurred when packets are formed into larger bursts causing additional overall delay. It is observed that performance decreases up to a small burst length of 1500 μs, which is the minimum burst length required for the creation of the burst. Once this burst is created, there is significant improvement in the quality factor up to 3000 μs. After this burst length, the performance again degrades. Hence the burst length can be optimized for the best quality factor in optical burst switched networks. We further show that by increasing EDFA gain, the quality deteriorates as increasing the EDFA gain results in increased levels of additive phase noise, which can further induce nonlinearities.     

A congestion alleviated scheme in optical burst switching network

An optical burst switching (OBS) network platform is established with a ring topology of three nodes. A congestion alleviated scheme using advanced token protocol and wavelength tunable receivers is demonstrated to optimize the network platform. Experimental results testify that this scheme can resist collision at the level of 0.1% congestion rate.     

A novel scheme based on minimum delay at the edges for optical burst switching networks

This paper proposes a novel scheme based on minimum delay at the edges (MDE) for optical burst switching (OBS) networks. This scheme is designed to overcome the long delay at the edge nodes of OBS networks. The MDE scheme features simultaneous burst assembly, channel scheduling, and pre-transmission of control packet. It also features estimated setup and explicit release (ESXR) signaling protocol. The MDE scheme can minimize the delay at the edge nodes for data packets, and improve the end-to-end latency performance for OBS networks. In addition, comparing with the conventional scheme, the performances of the MDE scheme are analyzed in this paper.     

Performance enhancement of optical burst switched networks

Optical burst switching (OBS) is an optical switching paradigm which offers a good tradeoff between the traditional optical circuit switching (OCS) and optical packet switching (OPS) since it has the relatively easy implementation of the first and the efficient bandwidth utilization of the second. Hence, OBS is a promising technology for the next generation optical Internet. A buffer-less OBS network can be implemented using ordinary optical communication equipment without the need for either wavelength converters or optical memories. In an OBS network, burst-loss performance is a critical concern. In OBS, the data-burst transmission is delayed by an offset time (relative to its burst control packet (BCP), or header) and the burst follows its header without waiting for an acknowledgment for resource reservation. Thus, a burst may be lost at an intermediate node due to contention, which is generally resolved according to the local routing and bandwidth information. The routing table maintained in each OBS node is generally pre-computed and fixed to forward the data bursts. Such a static forwarding feature might have limited efficiency to resolve contentions. Moreover, a burst may be lost and the network may be congested when a network element (e.g., fiber link) fails. In this paper, an efficient integrated scheme based on dynamic routing and burst segmentation has been proposed to improve reliability of data transport and network load balancing in optical burst switched networks. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed approach reduces effectively blocking probability and hence contention. Further, it provides end-to-end throughput performance also. Hence, it establishes an appropriate tradeoff between loss rate and end-to-end throughput.     

Performance analysis of optical burst switching under bursty traffic

The performance of the algorithm of the data channel scheduling algorithm of latest available unscheduled channel with void filling (LAUC-VF) under bursty traffic is presented firstly. A bursty traffic model for optical burst switch performance simulation is also introduced.     

Semiconductor laser optical amplifiers in switching and distribution networks

Applications of semiconductor laser optical amplifiers in coherent multichannel systems are investigated with respect to the switching and distribution of many channels to a large number of customers. All-optical switching of data signals is achieved with the optical amplifier operating as a frequency converter. Measurements of the conversion efficiency and a transmission experiment with a 1500 GHz conversion range are described. Possible applications are all-optical multipoint to point and point to multipoint switching. Optical amplifiers may also be useful in multichannel distribution networks to compensate for combining and splitting losses. We discuss an example demonstrating how optical amplifiers increase the number of customers in a coherent multichannel distribution system.     

光弹性分组环(ORPR)节点中光分组组装算法研究

介绍了光弹性分组环(ORPR)节点模型,分析了ORPR网络中流量成型时光分组组装算法,提出一种适合ORPR网络的基于控制发送时间的光分组组装算法,给出了该算法的算法结构,并和传统的光分组组装算法做了比较。该算法通过分组发送间隔的调整,使得分组单位时间内的流量的自相似性被平滑,具有很好地抑制突发性的效果,同时,分组组装的时间门限可以被ORPR调度算法动态调整,可以适应缺乏缓存的ORPR网络的调度机制。     

A new prediction method at the edge of optical burst switching network

To achieve lower assembly delay at optical burst switching edge node, this paper proposes an approach called current weight length prediction (CWLP) to improve existing estimate mechanism in burst assembly.is introduced to make a dynamic tradeoff between the current and past traffic under different offset time.Simulation results show that CWLP can achieve a significant improvement in terms of traffic estimation in various offset time and offered load.     

Transmission performance of the SCM label in optical label switching networks

We have investigated the transmission performance of the label signal in the optical double sideband subcarrier multiplexing (DSB-SCM) label switching link and clarified that the degradation of the label signal results from the fiber chromatic dispersion and the incomplete filtering out of the payload carrier. Our theoretical results show that the DSB-SCM label can immune the fading effect, and the degradation mainly results from the crosstalk from the payload and the time shift of the code edge. The deep suppression of the optical carriers at the receiver can eliminate the crosstalk. The time shift of the code edges leads to the eye closure of the label codes and is independent of the code rate, but it does not degrade the label code with a low bit rate greatly, although it is serious for the label with a high bit rate and ultimately limits the transmission distance of the label. The simulation results validate our analysis very well. As we theoretically predict that the single sideband (SSB)-SCM can eliminate the time shift of the code edges and extend the transmission distance of the label signal.     

A novel differentiated services supporting scheme for optical burst switched networks

In this letter, we analyze the drawback of tail-dropping contention resolution in optical burst switched networks. Once contention occurs, we adopt modified head-dropping policy to resolve contention. This policy drops the head of the contending burst only if the overlapping region of the two bursts is less than the whole contending burst size, otherwise drops the whole contending burst. In order to have a better support of differentiated service, a new burst assembly policy, namely, Priority-based proportional mixed burst assembly, is proposed. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme performs very well in terms of performance metrics such as the times of contention and packet loss probability.