A simulation study of optical burst switching and access protocols for WDM ring networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Progressive Introduction of Optical Packet Switching Techniques in WDM Networks
IWDC '01 Proceedings of the Thyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications: Evolutionary Trends of the Internet
A Simulation Study of Access Protocols for Optical Burst-Switched Ring Networks
NETWORKING '02 Proceedings of the Second International IFIP-TC6 Networking Conference on Networking Technologies, Services, and Protocols; Performance of Computer and Communication Networks; and Mobile and Wireless Communications
A novel framework for IP DiffServ over optical burst switching networks
Journal of Computer Science and Technology
Optimizing an OBS scheduler buffer
valuetools '06 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Performance evaluation methodolgies and tools
Performance analysis of an ingress switch in a JumpStart optical burst switching network
Performance Evaluation
Performance of optical burst switched networks: a two moment analysis
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Traffic modelling of asynchronous bufferless optical packet switched networks
Computer Communications
Maximizing throughput for optical burst switching networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Interleaved Traffic Splitting: A promising technique to solve False Timeout
Computer Communications
On the Early Release of Burst-Control Packets in Optical Burst-Switched Networks
Information Networking. Towards Ubiquitous Networking and Services
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Novel passive optical switching using shared electrical buffer and wavelength converter
ONDM'07 Proceedings of the 11th international IFIP TC6 conference on Optical network design and modeling
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Dynamic OBS offset allocation in WDM networks
Computer Communications
Photonic Network Communications
Dynamic light trail routing in WDM optical networks
Photonic Network Communications
Performance modelling and traffic characterisation of optical networks
Network performance engineering
High-performance implementation of in-network traffic pacing for small-buffer networks
Computer Communications
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Wavelength-division multiplexing has emerged as an important physical layer technology. Optical transmission provides a physical layer capable of carrying bits at the speed at the order of a gigabit per second. Optical burst switching is proposed to overcome the shortcomings of conventional WDM deployment, such as lack of fine bandwidth granularity in wavelength routing and electronic speed bottlenecks in SONET/SDH. We describe an architecture for IP network over the OBS WDM transmission core. The use of MPLS-type technique for forwarding data bursts and the inclusion of a medium access control layer between the optical (WDM) and IP layers are the key ingredients of the proposed architecture. In particular, the architecture is based on provisioning MPLS paths, also called label switched paths, of desired quality of service through the OBS WDM transmission core. The MAC layer performs various OBS-specific functions, such as burst assembly, burst scheduling, and offset setting/traffic shaping. While burst assembly and burst scheduling are relatively straightforward, we point out that the offset setting strategy has significant impact on the performance of IP network operating over OBS WDM core. We describe a shaping scheme to set the offset, an important system parameter for OBS, between the successive data bursts of a given data stream (label switched path) and their associated control packets. This scheme results in robust operation of the network and also facilitates traffic engineering. Guidelines are provided for implementing various IP QoS mechanisms in the optical backbone using OBS.