Analysis of the burst loss rate in OBS rings with depth limited optical buffers

作者：Xu, Huadong^*; Fan, Ge

来源：Journal of High Speed Networks, 2007, 16(4): 341-351.

• buffers
• optical burst switching
• optical fiber delay lines
• optical switches

Optical Burst Switching (OBS) is considered as the promised solution for next generation backbone networks, but the high burst loss rate caused by the burst contention is a great hindrance to the practical use.
The authors proposed a new way to solve the burst contentions in OBS rings. As illustrated in the paper, basing the optical buffers with depth about the maximum Data Burst (DB) size and a proper wavelengths selection strategy for the local DBs the burst loss rate in an OBS ring can be decreased to a negligible level. So buffer insertion, the most successful method for asynchronous packet switching, can be adopted in OBS ring by an acceptable cost.

• 出版日期2007
• 单位上海交通大学