Title :
A fair packet-level performance comparison of OBS and OCS
Author :
Liu, Xin ; Qiao, Chunming ; Yu, Xiang ; Gong, Weibo
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., State Univ. of New York, USA
Abstract :
The performance of optical burst switching (OBS) and optical circuit-switching (OCS) in terms of packet delivery and packet loss ratios is compared based on a given input traffic and comparable settings. Our results show that OBS performs better in most cases.
Keywords :
circuit switching; optical fibre networks; packet switching; fair packet-level performance; optical burst switching; optical circuit-switching; packet delivery; packet loss ratios; Delay; Fabrics; Measurement; Optical buffering; Optical computing; Optical fiber networks; Optical wavelength conversion; Performance loss; Switching circuits; Telecommunication traffic;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. OFC 2006
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-803-9
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2006.215829
