Title :
Transport layer protocol for optical flow-switched networks
Author :
Henna Huang ; Chan, Vincent W. S.
Author_Institution :
Claude E. Shannon Commun. & Network Group, Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
We explore transport layer protocol design for an optical flow-switched (OFS) network. The design guarantees the reliable delivery of data files over an all-optical end-to-end flow-switched lightpath which is a burst-error channel due to gain transients in EDFAs. TCP performs poorly for OFS. TCP flow control and fair resource allocation with windowing are unnecessary in OFS networks since they are done via scheduling. In our protocol design, we optimize throughput efficiency and delay using file segmentation and reassembly, interleaving with forward error-correction and frame retransmission.
Keywords :
erbium; forward error correction; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre networks; resource allocation; telecommunication network reliability; transport protocols; EDFA; TCP flow control; all-optical end-to-end flow-switched lightpath; burst-error channel; fair resource allocation; file segmentation; forward error correction; frame retransmission; optical flow-switched networks; throughput efficiency; transport layer protocol design; Delays; Forward error correction; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber networks; Protocols; Throughput; Transient analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Communications (ICC), 2013 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Budapest
DOI :
10.1109/ICC.2013.6655151