Analysis of electronic buffers in optical packet/burst switched mesh networks

Author

Bonani, L.H. ; Barbosa, F.R. ; Arthur, Rangel ; Moschim, Edson

Author_Institution

Center of High Educ. on Technol., State Univ. of Campinas, Limeira

Volume

3

fYear

2008

fDate

22-26 June 2008

Firstpage

146

Lastpage

149

Abstract

We present in this paper the study of electronic buffering in an innovative architecture for optical packet/burst switched network (OPSN). This architecture comprises optical bufferless nodes with electronic packet queuing out of the optical layer, deflection routing to perform contention resolution and fully connected mesh topologies under uniform traffic distribution. We demonstrate, by means of simulation, that the studied architecture has a great improvement in performance when we introduce such electronic buffers, which are more efficient when used with the optimized mesh topologies.

Keywords

buffer circuits; optical burst switching; optical fibre networks; optimisation; packet switching; photonic switching systems; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication network topology; OPSN; contention resolution; deflection routing; electronic buffering; electronic packet queuing; innovative architecture; optical bufferless nodes; optical layer; optical packet-burst switched mesh networks; optimized mesh topology; Circuit topology; Computer architecture; Mesh networks; Network topology; Optical buffering; Optical fiber networks; Optical packet switching; Routing; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Electronic Buffering; Mesh Topology; Optical Fiber Communications; Photonic Switching;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2008. ICTON 2008. 10th Anniversary International Conference on

Conference_Location

Athens

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2625-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2626-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2008.4598676

Filename

4598676