Survivability performance evaluation of an optical switch

Author

Guizani, Mohsen ; Memon, A.

Author_Institution

Univ. of West Florida, Pensacola, FL, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

1192

Abstract

An optical switch is designed and its survivability performance is presented. Its performance/reliability analysis is carried out and compared with two major fault-tolerant networks, Itoh´s (1991) and Benes´. The results show that without redundant switches, better network survivability is achieved. In addition, much less hardware is needed. The preliminary results of the analysis show that the proposed switch has comparable performance to other fault-tolerant networks whereas it outperforms them in other aspects such as the number of extra switches/links, thus providing better cost-effectiveness

Keywords

fault tolerance; multistage interconnection networks; optical switches; telecommunication network reliability; Benes fault-tolerant network; Itoh fault-tolerant network; cost-effective switch; fault-tolerant networks; multistage interconnection networks; network survivability; optical switch; performance/reliability analysis; survivability performance evaluation; Asynchronous transfer mode; Circuit faults; Fault tolerance; Multiprocessor interconnection networks; Optical switches; Performance analysis; Redundancy; Robustness; Routing; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 2000. GLOBECOM '00. IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6451-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2000.891325

Filename

891325