A new burst assembly and dropping scheme for service differentiation in optical burst switched networks

Zhizhong Zhang; Fang Cheng; Jianxin Wang; Jiangtao Luo; Qingji Zeng; Xuelei Xuan

doi:10.1117/12.522002

7 May 2004 A new burst assembly and dropping scheme for service differentiation in optical burst switched networks

Zhizhong Zhang, Fang Cheng, Jianxin Wang, Jiangtao Luo, Qingji Zeng, Xuelei Xuan

Proceedings Volume 5281, Optical Transmission, Switching, and Subsystems; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.522002
Event: Asia-Pacific Optical and Wireless Communications, 2003, Wuhan, China

Abstract

It has been proved that through burst segmenting, and thus dropping the segment of one burst that is overlapped with another burst, the packet loss probability will be significantly improved for optical burst switched networks. Based upon this, two main segment dropping strategies, head- and tail-dropping, can be used to resolve contention. In this paper, we point out that tail-dropping policy, which is adopted in most literatures, may not be a feasible solution, while head-dropping policy, even though it may make the packets to arrive out of order, is in deed a solution which can resolve the contention effectively. Moreover, with respect to tail-dropping policy, the increase of the disorder of packet arrivals for head-dropping policy is trivial. To support service differentiation and decrease the disorder of packet arrivals generated by contention resolution, we further propose a new threshold-based hybrid-assembly scheme. The most striking characteristic of the hybrid-assembly scheme is that the low and high packet classes are aggregated into one burst simultaneously. Once contention occurs, head-dropping policy is adopted to drop the overlapping packets. We describe the concrete implementation of QoS supporting, and the corresponding dropping strategy -- improved head-dropping policy, which aims at guaranteeing a better QoS support and a feasible implementation, is also detailed. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed burst assembly scheme, together with the head-dropping policy, perform well in terms of performance metrics such as the average packet loss probability and service differentiation.

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Zhizhong Zhang, Fang Cheng, Jianxin Wang, Jiangtao Luo, Qingji Zeng, and Xuelei Xuan "A new burst assembly and dropping scheme for service differentiation in optical burst switched networks", Proc. SPIE 5281, Optical Transmission, Switching, and Subsystems, (7 May 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.522002

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