Publication No 34558

Author(s)

Dolzer, K.*

Title

Assured Horizon - A new combined framework for burst assembly and reservation in optical burst switched networks

Topics

Broadband Networks; Internet; Quality of Service

Methods

Traffic Engineering; Performance Evaluation

Keywords

LONG RANGE DEPENDENCE; PHOTONIC; ALL-OPTICAL NETWORK; SCHEDULING; RESERVATION; QOS; OPTICAL SWITCHING; BURST SWITCHING; ARCHITECTURE

Abstract

While traffic management is believed to be best implemented in the IP layer e. g. by GMPLS an evolving questing in the context of IP-over-photonics is whether the optical layer can provide service differentiation as service to the IP layer. As a positive answer to that question, a new framework for optical burst switched networks is proposed that comprises a new burst assembly mechanism, a new reservation mechanism as well as the communication between them. In order to keep the core very simple, the complexity is moved to the ingress of the network where burst header processing is performed in a distributed way. Performance evaluations confirm that without relying on queueing in the core, assured Horizon efficiently yields service differentiation.

Year

2002

Reference entry

Dolzer, K.
Assured Horizon - A new combined framework for burst assembly and reservation in optical burst switched networks
Proceedings of the European Conference on Networks and Optical Communications (NOC 2002), Darmstadt, June 2002

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