Resilient burst ring: extend IEEE 802.17 to WDM networks

In this article, a novel network architecture called resilient burst ring is proposed to implement the next-generation WDM-supported ultrahigh- speed (100 gigabit or higher) carrier Ethernet. This architecture inherits all the best features of resilient packet ring (IEEE 802.17), provides a burst-mode data transmission scheme through a two-sublayer (optical and electronic) hierarchy, and realizes the WDM-supported ultra-high-speed Ethernet with scalability and reliability. RBR adopts a two-layer buffering scheme to resolve the contentions of optical burst packets and provides three different data transmission modes. With the proposed priority-only-destination-delay resource reservation control protocol, RBR can provide a flexible QoS strategy to implement the transmission of all of the applications and services in existing networks.