Title :
A distributed protocol to reduce blocking for short flows in optical flow switching networks
Author :
Qian, Zhengfeng ; Ho, Kwok Shing ; Xu, Anshi ; Cheung, Kwok Wai
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin, China
Abstract :
We propose the distributed Multi-Destinations Control Protocol (MDCP) for optical flow switching networks that can reduce the destination and path blocking. Numerical studies demonstrate that MDCP can effectively improve the network throughput to over 80%.
Keywords :
Delay; Gallium nitride; Optical buffering; Optical fiber networks; Optical switches; distributed protocol; generalized survivable network; non-blocking network; optical flow switching;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Internet (COIN), 2010 9th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Jeju, Korea (South)
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7181-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8221-4
DOI :
10.1109/COIN.2010.5546427
