Performance evaluation of Optical Burst Switched mesh networks with Localized Functional Resources

Author

Bonani, Luiz Henrique

Author_Institution

CECS, Univ. Fed. do ABC, Santo Andre, Brazil

fYear

2012

fDate

2-5 July 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This work investigates the performance of Optical Burst Switched (OBS) mesh networks using Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) and Localized Functional Resources (LFC). These OBS networks were designed to have the same amount of wavelengths in all the links of a mesh topology, but some nodes or links chosen from the knowledge of network utilization, have additional functional resources as Wavelength Converters (WC) and Deflection Routing (DR) capability. The preliminary results show that the Localized Functional Resources can be a good choice to increase the performance of future Metropolitan Area Networks (MAN) without adding new wavelengths to the links.

Keywords

metropolitan area networks; optical burst switching; telecommunication network routing; wavelength division multiplexing; wireless mesh networks; LFC; MAN; WDM; deflection routing; localized functional resources; mesh topology; metropolitan area networks; optical burst switched mesh networks; wavelength converters; wavelength division multiplexing; Delay; Integrated optics; Network topology; Optical fiber networks; Optical wavelength conversion; Routing; Topology; Localized Functional Resources; OBS Networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2012 14th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Coventry

ISSN

2161-2056

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2228-7

Electronic_ISBN

2161-2056

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2012.6253809

Filename

6253809