A simulation study of combined routing and contention resolution algorithms in connection-oriented OPS network scenario

Author

Klinkowski, M. ; Careglio, D. ; Masip-Bruin, X. ; Spadaro, S. ; Sanchez-López, S. ; So-Pareta, J.

Author_Institution

Adv. Broadband Commun. Centre, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Volume

1

fYear

2004

fDate

4-8 July 2004

Firstpage

33

Abstract

The connection-oriented optical packet-switched network integrates MPLS and OPS layers to exploit the best of electronic and optical technologies. In particular, routing components use enhanced routing algorithms to compute the paths; forwarding components examine the labels of incoming packets to determine the next hop and contention resolution algorithms to solve packet contention; finally packets are physically transferred to the output interface, properly chosen by the forwarding component, using optics. In this paper we describe the details of such a network scenario, identifying some problems and suggesting different routing and contention resolution algorithms. The resulting network is evaluated by simulation in order to obtain network performance characteristics for suitable combined selection of these algorithms.

Keywords

multiprotocol label switching; optical fibre networks; packet switching; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication traffic; MPLS; connection-oriented OPS network; contention resolution algorithms; enhanced routing algorithms; network performance; optical packet-switched network; simulation; Computational modeling; Computer interfaces; Integrated optics; Multiprotocol label switching; Optical computing; Optical devices; Optical fiber networks; Optical packet switching; Physics computing; Routing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2004. Proceedings of 2004 6th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8343-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2004.1360240

Filename

1360240