Mechanisms and performance of reflection routing for optical packet switched networks

Author

Yokoyama, Hiroyuki ; Nakamura, Hajime

Author_Institution

KDDI R&D Labs. Inc., Saitama, Japan

fYear

2002

fDate

17-22 Mar 2002

Firstpage

779

Lastpage

781

Abstract

We introduced a new simple routing method called reflection routing. This routing method makes use of transport optical fibers in networks as delay lines and enhances quality of service in terms of packet loss ratio. By using numerical simulations, we have shown that the reflection routing can achieve almost the same performance of the deflection routing in practical situation, and the time interval of packet misordering is limited within the critical value of a TCP/IP session for each subscriber.

Keywords

Internet; optical fibre networks; packet switching; quality of service; routing protocols; telecommunication network routing; wavelength division multiplexing; deflection routing; delay lines; numerical simulations; optical packet switched networks; packet loss ratio; packet misordering; quality of service; reflection routing; routing method; time interval; transport optical fibers; Coaxial cables; Costs; Downlink; Optical fiber testing; Optical packet switching; Optical reflection; Passive optical networks; Power lasers; Round robin; Routing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, 2002. OFC 2002

Print_ISBN

1-55752-701-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2002.1036713

Filename

1036713