Performance assessment of optical burst switching networks based on a common control channel with distributed control

  • Authors:
  • Nuno M. Garcia;Przemyslaw Lenkiewicz;Mário M. Freire;Paulo P. Monteiro

  • Affiliations:
  • Centro de Investigação em Comunicação Aplicada, Cultura e Novas Tecnologias, Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Lisboa and Dept. of Comp. Sci., Univ. of B ...;Department of Computer Science, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal;Department of Computer Science, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal;Instituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro and Nokia Siemens Networks Portugal S.A., Amadora, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • WOCN'09 Proceedings of the Sixth international conference on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper investigates performance implications of distributed control for optical burst switching (OBS) networks.It is analysed the Common Control Channel Optical Burst Switched (C3 -OBS) network architecture, which enables resource reservation planning at each node, embodying a shift in OBS networking paradigm, from isolated to distributed control. is proposed a model for the C3 -DBS optical cross connect node and discussed its implementation. A performance assessment of C3_ OBS networks is presented, including a performance comparison with conventional OBS networks for several topologies.