Impact of topology on layer 2 switched QoS sensitive services

Author

Puype, Bart ; Verbanck, Geert ; Michielsen, Jurgen ; Moeskops, Marc ; Tavernier, Wouter ; Colle, Didier ; Pickavet, Mario ; Demeester, Piet

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Technol., Ghent Univ., Ghent, Belgium

fYear

2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

High-bandwidth QoS sensitive services such as large scale video surveillance generally depend on provisioned capacity delivered by circuit-switched technology such as SONET/SDH. Yet development in layer 2 protocol sets and manageability extensions to Ethernet standards propose layer 2 packet switching technology as a viable, cheaper alternative to SONET/SDH. Layer 2 switched networks traditionally offer more complex topologies; in this paper we explain general QoS issues with layer 2 switching and show the impact of topology choice on service performance.

Keywords

circuit switching; local area networks; packet switching; protocols; quality of service; telecommunication network topology; Ethernet standards; SONET-SDH; circuit-switched technology; high-bandwidth QoS sensitive services; large scale video surveillance; layer 2 packet switching technology; layer 2 protocol; layer 2 switched QoS sensitive service topology; Circuit topology; Ethernet networks; Large-scale systems; Network topology; Protocols; SONET; Standards development; Synchronous digital hierarchy; Technology management; Video surveillance; layer 2 switching; quality of service; topology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2010 12th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7799-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-7797-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2010.5549140

Filename

5549140