Blocking time analysis of OBS routers with arbitrary burst size distribution

The blocking time distribution for an OBS router is obtained, under the assumption of Poisson-arriving bursts with Pareto, Gaussian and exponential burst size distributions. Analytical expressions are provided as a function of number of wavelengths per port. Such expressions can be used to dimension fiber delay lines (FDLs) and to perform end-to-end delay estimation. On the other hand, we show that the blocking time distribution becomes exponential as the number of wavelengths increases, regardless of the burst size distribution. Since the burst size distribution is determined by the burst assembly algorithm at the network edges, we conclude that the burst assembly algorithm have no influence on both burst blocking probability and burst blocking time in future DWDM networks.