Assembling TCP/IP packets in optical burst switched networks

Author

Cao, Xiaojun ; Li, Jikai ; Chen, Yang ; Qiao, Chunming

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., State Univ. of New York, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2002

fDate

17-21 Nov. 2002

Firstpage

2808

Abstract

Optical burst switching (OBS) is a promising paradigm for the next-generation Internet infrastructure. We study the performance of TCP traffic in OBS networks and in particular, the effect of assembly algorithms on TCP traffic. We describe three assembly algorithms in this paper and compare them using the same TCP traffic input. The results show that the performance of the proposed adaptive-assembly-period (AAP) algorithm is better than that of the min-burstlength-max-assembly-period (MBMAP) algorithm and the fixed-assembly-period (FAP) algorithm in terms of goodput and data loss rate. The results also indicate that burst assembly mechanisms affect the behavior of TCP in that the assembled TCP traffic becomes smoother in the short term, and more suitable for transmission in optical networks.

Keywords

optical fibre networks; optical switches; packet switching; telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; Internet infrastructure; OBS networks; TCP traffic input; TCP traffic performance; TCP/IP packets assembling; adaptive-assembly-period algorithm; assembly algorithms; burst assembly mechanisms; data loss rate; fixed-assembly-period algorithm; goodput; min-burstlength-max-assembly-period algorithm; optical burst switched networks; optical transmission; Assembly; Financial advantage program; Internet; Optical burst switching; Optical fiber networks; Optical losses; Optical packet switching; Performance loss; TCPIP; Telecommunication traffic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 2002. GLOBECOM '02. IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7632-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2002.1189141

Filename

1189141