Title :
Performance of Optical Burst Switched Networks for Grid Applications
Author :
Garcia, Nuno M. ; Pereira, Manuela ; Freire, Mário M. ; Monteiro, Paulo P. ; Lenkiewicz, Przemyslaw
Author_Institution :
Siemens Networks S.A., Amadora
Abstract :
This paper presents a performance assessment of optical burst switching (OBS) networks for grid applications, focusing on effective usable bandwidth and mean burst end-to-end delay for several burst loss ratios scenarios and network topologies. We show that for burst loss ratio scenarios that are not too punitive, OBS can still deliver fast and fair transmission of data between any two nodes. For irregular topologies, we also show the occluded node effect using a new set of OBS network evaluation statistics and assess the usable bandwidth for three studied topologies as a ratio of the overall network bandwidth and the effectively used resources.
Keywords :
grid computing; optical burst switching; telecommunication network topology; effective usable bandwidth; grid applications; mean burst end-to-end delay; network topologies; optical burst switched networks; performance assessment; Application software; Bandwidth; Delay effects; Delay estimation; Network topology; Optical burst switching; Optical fiber networks; Optical losses; Performance loss; Telecommunication network topology;
Conference_Titel :
Networking and Services, 2007. ICNS. Third International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Athens
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-2858-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICNS.2007.95
