• DocumentCode
    1746135
  • Title

    A comparative study of OBS and OFS

  • Author

    Chunsheng Xin ; Chunming Qiao

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., State Univ. of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA
  • Volume
    4
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    17-22 March 2001
  • Abstract
    This paper evaluates the performance of two promising approaches for IP over WDM networks, namely optical burst switching (OBS) and optical flow switching (OFS), based on both synthetic and real traffic. We show that there is significantly better throughput when using OBS rather than OFS. We believe that this is a result of more efficient just-enough-time bandwidth reservation scheme used in OBS.
  • Keywords
    Internet; access protocols; optical fibre networks; telecommunication traffic; wavelength division multiplexing; IP over WDM networks; just-enough-time bandwidth reservation scheme; optical burst switching; optical flow switching; optical switching schemes; real traffic; synthetic traffic; telecommunication traffic; Assembly; Delay; Image motion analysis; Optical burst switching; Optical fiber networks; Optical network units; Optical packet switching; Switching circuits; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, 2001. OFC 2001
  • Conference_Location
    Anaheim, CA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-655-9
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    927516