TCP performance analysis of optical burst switching networks with a burst acknowledgment mechanism

Author

Du, Ping ; Abe, Shunji

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf., Graduate Univ. for Adv. Studies, Tokyo, Japan

Volume

2

fYear

2004

fDate

29 Aug.-1 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

621

Abstract

Optical burst switching (OBS) has been proposed to be a promising switching technology for the next optical transport network. We present an analytical model to study the performance of TCP traffic in OBS networks. A novel acknowledgment mechanism is proposed to provide loss detection and error recovery mechanism for an OBS network. The analytical and simulation results show that our mechanism can lighten burst loss ratio for TCP flow and improve the performance of the OBS network.

Keywords

optical fibre networks; telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; OBS; TCP traffic flow; burst acknowledgement mechanism; error recovery mechanism; loss detection; optical burst switching network; optical transport network; transmission control protocol; Analytical models; Assembly; Bandwidth; Informatics; Optical burst switching; Optical devices; Optical fiber networks; Optical packet switching; Optical receivers; Performance analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2004 and the 5th International Symposium on Multi-Dimensional Mobile Communications Proceedings. The 2004 Joint Conference of the 10th Asia-Pacific Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8601-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APCC.2004.1391789

Filename

1391789