• DocumentCode
    737717
  • Title

    Performance Evaluation of a Bufferless OBS/OPS Network With 1 + 1 Path Protection

  • Author

    Li, Shuo ; Wang, Meiqian ; Overby, Harald ; Wong, Eric W. M. ; Zukerman, Moshe

  • Author_Institution
    School of Electronic Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
  • Volume
    27
  • Issue
    20
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    2115
  • Lastpage
    2118
  • Abstract
    In optical burst/packet switched (OBS/OPS) networks, bursts/packets may be dropped because of equipment failures. A widely used mechanism to protect a connection from a single-trunk-failure event is 1 + 1 path protection. We consider a bufferless OBS/OPS network with two types of users: 1) premium (that receive 1 + 1 protection service) and 2) regular (that do not receive such a service). We propose a fast and accurate approximation to evaluate the performance of such OBS/OPS network. The accuracy and scalability of the approximation and the effect of the proportion of the premium users in the network are discussed.
  • Keywords
    Accuracy; Approximation methods; Load modeling; Optical buffering; Optical packet switching; Optical wavelength conversion; Scalability; 1+1 path protection; Burst loss ratio; Erlang Fixed-Point Approximation; Erlang fixed-point approximation; burst loss ratio; optical burst/packet switching;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1041-1135
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LPT.2015.2453204
  • Filename
    7151789