Buffering controls for IP packets in optical packet switching

Author

Chien, Su Fong ; Tan, C.P. ; Low, Andy L Y ; You, A.H. ; Takahashi, Kenzo

Author_Institution

Centre of High-Speed Broadband Network, Multimedia Univ., Melaka, Malaysia

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

21-24 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

473

Abstract

This paper investigates several buffering schemes for variable IP packets length in optical packet switching (OPS). Three new schemes with sorting abilities according to the packet´s length as well as the capability of finding the minimum buffer occupancy are introduced in order to compare with the common round-robin scheme. The computed results show that there is a trade off between packets drops probability and information loss probability for the investigated schemes. It can be concluded that the bigger the Hust parameter of self-similar traffic the higher probabilities for the packets to drop and information loss but vice versa when more wavelengths are used.

Keywords

IP networks; buffer storage; optical fibre communication; packet switching; Hust parameter; IP packet length; Internet Protocol; buffering control; information loss probability; minimum buffer occupancy; optical packet switching; packet drop probability; packet dropping; self-similar traffic; sorting ability; IP networks; Optical buffering; Optical control; Optical losses; Optical packet switching; Random variables; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2003. APCC 2003. The 9th Asia-Pacific Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8114-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APCC.2003.1274402

Filename

1274402