Synchronous optical burst switching

Author

Sheeshia, Sami ; Qiao, Chunming

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., New York State Univ., Buffalo, NY, USA

fYear

2004

fDate

25-29 Oct. 2004

Firstpage

4

Lastpage

13

Abstract

We introduce a new protocol based on the optical-burst-switched (OBS) transport to support synchronous services such as SONET/SDH. We term this protocol synchronous optical burst switching (SOBS) and describe the problems and challenges of supporting both synchronous and asynchronous traffic with various bandwidth granularities. We discuss the problems of path signaling, periodic reservations, and burst framing. We also highlight the importance of burst-level grooming, develop related analytical formulations, and present results of various simulations.

Keywords

optical fibre networks; telecommunication services; telecommunication signalling; telecommunication switching; telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; SDH; SONET; asynchronous traffic; burst framing; burst-level grooming; periodic reservation; synchronous optical burst switching; synchronous service; synchronous traffic; Analytical models; Circuits; Data communication; Ethernet networks; Optical burst switching; Optical packet switching; Protocols; SONET; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Broadband Networks, 2004. BroadNets 2004. Proceedings. First International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2221-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BROADNETS.2004.82

Filename

1363785